{"id":5228,"date":"2014-02-13T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2014-02-18T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:47:21","slug":"avoiding-plagiarism-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Plagiarism 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: A teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the next year. There will always be instability in these rankings, some of which will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: A teacher with one ranking could get a different one next year. Instability with always exist in these rankings, although some will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Even though a teacher may receive one ranking on year, he or she is likely to get a different ranking the next year. Rankings will always have instability as some of these will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes (Ravitch 270-271).<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: The ranking received by a teacher may not be consistent over the years. These rankings are inherently unsound as they are adjusted yearly to express changes in performance (Ravitch 270-271).<\/p>\n<p>Step 5: A teacher\u2019s ranking is subject to change yearly. As Ravitch articulates, \u201cThere will always be instability in these rankings\u201d as some will exhibit performance changes that skew the rankings (Ravitch 270-271).<\/p>\n<p>Works Cited:<br \/>\nRavitch, Diane. &#8220;Epilogue: School and Society.&#8221; The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. New York: Basic, 2010. 270-71. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: A teacher who gets a particular ranking in year one is likely to get a different ranking the next year. There will always be instability in these rankings, some of which will reflect \u201creal\u201d performance changes. Step 2: A teacher with one ranking could get a different one next year. Instability with always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2014\/02\/avoiding-plagiarism-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avoiding Plagiarism 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}