Measuring Up: Standards, Assessment, and School Reform

ISBN-13: 9780787900557 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 240 str.

Robert Rothman

Opis

-The question that dismays all teachers and ought to concern every parent because of what it reveals about what school can do to a child's curiosity -- ?Will this be on the test?' -- will never be answered again in the same way. Bob Rothman offers a rich and compelling account of the unfolding revolution in testing in America's schools.-
-- Richard P. Mills, Vermont commissioner of education

An award-winning journalist, Rothman cuts through the assessment debate -- a debate often characterized by misrepresentations and jargon -- to offer a highly accessible examination of the shift in thinking about testing. He underscores that any change must begin with the And: what we want students to know and be able to do. Such changes demand a new way of knowing what students can achieve--and a system that enables them to achieve.

Spis treści

1. A Clash of Visions
2. 150 Years of Testing
3. The Emperor Has No Clothes
4. Pioneers in the State Houses
5. A Test for the Nation?
6. Between Rhetoric and Reality
7. Toward an AgAnda for Reform

O autorze

ROBERT ROTHMAN is a senior associate at the National Alliance for Restructuring Education. As an associate editor for Education Week, he covered a broad range of national, state, and local education issues. Rothman also spent a year as a visiting researcher at the Center for Research Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education.

Blurb

"If you want to know what the debates over performance assessment are really about...read this book! Rothman explains how assessment is related to new ideas about how studetns learn, about what is worth learning, and about who can be expected to learn ′the hard stuff.′ He shows how the politics of education is also the politics of assessment... and what it will take for thoughtful people who are concerned about our educational future to build a common view of the possible."––Lauren B. Resnick, professor, University of Pittsburgh"The question that dismays all teachers and ought to concern every parent because of what it reveals about what school can do to a child′s curiosity––′Will this be on the test?′––will never be answered again in the same way. Bob Rothman offers a rich and compelling account of the unfolding revolution in testing in America′s schools."––Richard P. Mills, Vermont commissioner of education