Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing (The Jossey-Bass education series) - Tapa dura

Wiggins, Grant P.

 
9781555425920: Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing (The Jossey-Bass education series)
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ISBN 10: 1555425925 ISBN 13: 9781555425920
Editorial: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1993

Sinopsis

What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why will a move to performance tests, by itself, not provide us with an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond the technical standards that now apply? And why won't increased national testing offer us the accountability of schools we so sorely need?
In this book, Grant P. Wiggins clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system. Beginning with the premise that student assessment should improve performance, not just audit it, Wiggins analyzes some time-honored but morally and intellectually problematic practices in test design, such as the use of secrecy, distracters, scoring on a curve, and formats that allow for no explanation by students of their answers. He explains how many test-design standards serve technical experts and their needs rather than students and their interests. And he discusses how useful and timely feedback is an absolute requirement of any authentic test.
By showing us that assessment is more than testing and intellectual performance is more than right answers, Wiggins points the way toward new systems of assessment that more closely examine students' habits of mind and provide teachers and policy makers with more useful and credible feedback.

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Acerca del autor

GRANT P. WIGGINS is director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a not-for-profit educational research and consulting organization in Geneseo, New York. He has consulted with numerous schools, districts, and states on assessment and curriculum reform, including Kentucky, California, New York, Vermont, and Maryland.

De la contraportada

"In the current torrent of talk about testing, Grant Wiggins' book constitutes an essential contribution. Rooted in historical knowledge, punctuated by acute philosophical analyses, and mindful of policy issues, Wiggins lays out the rationale for authentic forms of assessment."--Howard Gardner, professor of education and co-director of Project Zero, Harvard University

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Editorial
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1555425925
ISBN 13 
9781555425920
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780787950477: Assessing Student Performance P: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing (Jossey Bass Education Series)

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ISBN 10:  0787950475 ISBN 13:  9780787950477
Editorial: John Wiley & Sons, 1999
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