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Deep curriculum alignment : creating a level playing field for all children on high-stakes tests of educational accountability / Fenwick W. English, Betty E. Steffy. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, Fenwick W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curriculum planning--United States.
- Curriculum planning.
- Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--United States.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Educational accountability--United States.
- Educational accountability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 157 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Facing the Scourge of the Test Score Zeitgeist
- Culprits
- Some popular myths about tests
- The nature of curriculum alignment
- Understanding the Dynamics of the Playing Field
- The basic construct: the curriculum and the test
- The United States: one nation
- except for a curriculum
- The genius of the norm-referenced standardized test: an exam that doesn't need a curriculum or political decisions to determine passing or mastery scores
- Understanding the forces that comprise the "playing field"
- The fallacy of "value added" measures: using test score gains to pay teachers
- The "teaching to the test" conundrum: what is ethical?
- Initiating Actions to Level the Competitive Playing Field
- Frontloading or backloading?
- Curriculum as organizational memory
- Where to start the alignment process?
- Steps in developing a frontloaded curriculum
- Engaging in Deep Curriculum Alignment
- The emerging research on curriculum alignment
- The Zellmer study
- The Price-Baugh study
- The Moss-Mitchell study
- The practice of pedagogical parallelism
- A step-by-step guide to pedagogical parallelism as the key to deep curriculum alignment
- Creating a Viable Alternative to Testing as Mass Inspection
- Problems with current forms of high-stakes accountability tests
- Positive trends in state assessment programs
- Re-asserting the primacy of curriculum in the testing debate
- The terrain of struggle: what does it mean to teach social justice?
- Colleges of education: solutions or problems?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-38637-4
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