A forward-thinking look at performance assessment in the 21st century
Next Generation Assessment: Moving Beyond the Bubble Test to Support
21st Century Learning provides needed answers to the nation's growing
concerns about educational testing in America. Drawing on research and
the experiences of leading states and countries, this new book
examines how performance assessments can offer a feasible alternative
to current high stakes tests. As parents, educators, and policymakers
have increasingly criticized the effects of the teaching to the test
mandate from the No Child Left Behind Act, the need for this resource
has never been more critical. This summary volume to Beyond the Bubble
Test speaks to the nationwide unease about current tests' focus on
low-level skills, like recalling and restating facts, rather than
higher-order skills such as problem-solving, analyzing, and
synthesizing information. It illustrates how schools can use authentic
assessments to improve teaching and learning as they involve students
in conducting research, designing investigations, developing products
and solutions, using technology, and communicating their ideas in many
forms. This important book: Serves as a must-have resource for those
interested in the most current research about how to create valid and
reliable performance assessments Explains how educators can improve
practice by developing, using, and scoring performance assessments
Helps policymakers and educators accurately assess the benefits and
possibilities of adopting performance assessments nationally If you're
an educator, researcher, graduate student, district administrator, or
education policy specialist, Next Generation Assessment is an
indispensable resource you'll turn to again and again.
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ISBN
9781118928134
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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