Performance-based student assessment : challenges and possibilities
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Performance-based student assessment : challenges and possibilities
(Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 95th,
National society for the study of Education , Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Section One. Toward access, capacity, psychometric soundness and coherence
- Section Two. Realizations at the district and state levels
- Section 3. Possibilities at the national level
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Reforming our nation's educational system has created the need for new ways to assess the 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.
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