Performance-Based Student Assessment - Challenges and Perspectives (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)

Reforming our nation's educational system has created the need for new ways to assess students' performance. The trend among educators, parents, and politicians to accommodate diversity in the student body demands new systems that accurately gauge the progress of students in relation to their peers while allowing for differences in what students know and how they acquire knowledge. This collection of essays addresses the problems--technical, political, and intellectual--of designing such a system.
The first section discusses the concepts of learning that underpin different approaches to performance assessment. These essays compare notions of fixed intelligence and developmental learning and outline the need to acknowledge and support diversity in America's classrooms. The second section considers the political issues surrounding assessment systems that have been pilot-tested in Connecticut, Vermont, and Kentucky. The third and final section reviews design possibilities for future systems to assess both aptitude and achievement.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	National Society for the Study of Education S., 1995, Pt. 1
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	April 1996
Authors:	Joan Boykoff Baron • Dennie Palmer Wolf
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-03803-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Examinations & assessment
LSN:	0-226-03803-3
Barcode:	9780226038032

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