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Performance Standards and Authentic Learning.
Glatthorn, Allan A. – 1999
This book is intended as a practical guide to implementing a standards-based curriculum, developing performance tasks, teaching to those tasks, and using performance assessments. The chapters are: (1) "Establishing the Foundations"; (2) "Understanding the Achievement Cycle"; (3) "Focusing on Authentic Learning"; (4) "Building on a Standards-Based…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning, Performance Based Assessment
Performance-Based Learning and Assessment. A Teacher's Guide.
Hibbard, K. Michael; And Others – 1996
Performance tasks build on earlier content knowledge, progress skills, and work habits. They are not add-ons at the end of instruction, but an integral part of the learning and an opportunity to assess the quality of student performance. This guide was written by teachers to share their experiences in the introduction of performance based…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning
Authentic Assessment in the Classroom: Applications and Practice.
Tombari, Martin L.; Borich, Gary D. – 1999
The New Synthesis approach views learning as an active process by which learners create knowledge structures or mental representations. This book attempts to give classroom teachers alternative ways of assessing how their learners think, what they know, and what they can do. The chapters are: (1) "Teaching, Motivation, and Testing"; (2) "Academic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Student-Centered Classroom Assessment. Second Edition.
Stiggins, Richard J. – 1997
This book offers a philosophy about classroom assessment that places students at the center of the assessment equation. Classroom assessments must define for students what is expected of them, and they must provide the basis for decision making by students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the community. Part I of this volume, the first five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Handling Complexity in Learning Environments: Theory and Research. Advances in Learning and Instruction
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Elen, Jan, Ed.; Clark, Richard, Ed. – Elsevier, 2006
What is meant when people say that "learning environments are increasingly complex"? What is known about the cognitive processing that occurs during complex learning? How can educators provide effective instructional support for students who must learn and apply complex knowledge? These questions, and related issues, have fascinated educators and…
Descriptors: Learning, Educational Environment, Learning Theories, Prior Learning
Classroom Assessment and Learning.
Gredler, Margaret E. – 1999
This book presents the full array of assessment methods available to the classroom teacher in an interesting and engaging format, broadens the preservice and inservice teacher's understanding of related assessment issues, and places assessment in a meaningful context. The text, which was developed for an introductory course in classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructed Response, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education