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The assessment bridge : positive ways to link tests to learning, standards, and curriculum improvement / Pearl G. Solomon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Pearl G. (Pearl Gold), 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements--United States.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- United States.
- Education--Curricula--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Curricula--Standards.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Award-winning educator Pearl Solomon presents a clear-headed and cogent analysis of today's high-stakes standards-based testing movement, with an eye toward creating a more effective balance between assessment and curriculum, standards, teaching, and learning. Chapters cover: -- The origins and history of the current testing movement-- How good tests guide teaching and learning-- How to balance standardized tests, curriculum standards, and critical local variables such as class size, socioeconomics, and teacher attitudes-- How to build bridges from test anxiety to improved student learning, teacher training, curriculum and instruction, and school administration and leadership-- How to recruit, train, and nurture a new generation of talented, committed, and effective teachers
- Contents:
- Defining the problem : the historical context
- Schools at the beginning of the twenty-first century : problems and proposed solutions
- Taking the first steps toward productive change
- The assessment roadway : how tests tell us what to do
- Responding to high-stakes standards-based (HSSB) tests : restructuring curriculum
- Building a cohort of the best teachers : recruitment, engagement, nurturance
- Searching for leadership.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0761945946
- OCLC:
- 49225338
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