An analysis of the same data categorized by school yielded interesting results not apparent in the other analyses. Median ratings in most schools on each element generally ranged from 1.0 to 1.5 on a scale from one (low) to three (high), again with isolated instances of higher ratings for individual teachers (sec fable 4). But median ratings for the European Lyceum ranged from I. I to 2,S. with most between 1.7 and 1.9. This school is well known for its progressive approach to instruction, and personal observations by the investigator corroborated diese results. Manv teachers there were beginning to use higher order
questions, to accept alternate answers, and to provide additional data sources. Teachers at several schools were providing writing assignments that emerged from critical thinking activities: schools #133, ;I00.;l(>4. and "244 were especially notable: Table 4
Classroom Observations Categorized by School
Element
Rubric kul I Rubric lv%el 2 Rubric level 3 Median
Cognitive level of questions
Asks mainly recall and memory type questions, with focus on recitation and correctness.
Beginning to intersperse comprehension level questions in most lessons;
Regularly formulates questions at all levels of Bloom s taxonomy (most are open-ended and higher order.