WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus
Ramesh Sharma
The WikiEducator User Page Expo ("UPE" to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever.
July 2014
Alison Snieckus is a trained educational measurement specialist. From 1986 to 2000 she worked at Educational Testing Service (ETS, the makers of the famed SAT, TOEFL, GRE....). Later on due to personal reasons she gave up her job at ETS. She, alongwith a fellow homeschooling parent started homeschooling,and founded a local group for teens to have the opportunity to study and collaborate together: E-cubed: Experience, Explore, Educate. Here once per week sessions are designed around teen-led activities. Since the group was founded, it has grown over the years. In 2009-2010, she taught a hybrid course in Introductory Statistics to 5 secondary students who homeschool. The online portion of the course was provided by Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative. The goal of the course is to encourage students to think statistically, to communicate accurately and comprehensively about data, and to use a critical framework to evaluate studies. In Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, She taught Statistical Methods II for the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She advocates for an educational system which better recognizes and values the rich potential of individual variation among human beings. She argues on why do we think that all children should be force-fed a curriculum based on a narrow set of common standards, devised, largely, at the beginning of the last century? She has truly identified that every child (and certainly every teenager) deserves the option to self-direct his/her own education with the help of caring adults!
Please join us in congratulating Alison for being the UPE winner for July 2014!
Dr. Nellie Deutsch and Ramesh Sharma
Patricia Schlicht
Congratulations, Alison.
Warm wishes
Patricia
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Sarita Kumar
Associate Professor
Acharya Narendra Dev College
University of Delhi
India
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Congratulations, Alison! Loved visiting your page. You are admirable. Keep it up!Kalpana
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Pankaj Khare
Congrats Alison
Alison Snieckus
Balqis Thaahaveettil
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On 8/12/14, Balqis Thaahaveettil <bal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations and happy for you
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Alison Snieckus
> <alison....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for the recognition and the congratulations. I am honored.
>> I
>> enjoy my work in WE tremendously, and hope to continue contributing to
>> this
>> important work in the days and weeks and months to come.
>>
>> See you in the wiki,
>> Alison
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Ramesh Sharma <ram...@oerfoundation.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
Michael Verhaart
Hi AlisonWould like to add my congratulations along with everyone else. You have been a regular and enthusiastic contributor to WE for quite a while and the award is well deserved.