Description:This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed "authentic" performance-based assessments of students' learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. This important and timely book reveals the changing dynamics of classroom life as it moves from more traditional pedagogy to one that asks students to master intellectual and practical skills that are eminently transferable to "real-life" social settings and workplaces.Selected chapters: Authentic Assessment in Action - Graduation by Portfolio at Central Park East Secondary School - The Senior Project at Hodgson Vocational Technical High School - Collaborative Learning and Assessment at International High School - The Primary Language Record at P.S. 261 - The Bronx New School: Weaving Assessment into the Fabric of Teaching and Learning - Making Assessment Work for Students and SchoolsThis book will be important reading for practitioners, professors, and researchers of curriculum and instruction and educational policy, and will serve as a supplementary text in pre- and in-service courses in elementary and secondary curriculum development, curriculum and teaching, school organizations, educational leadership, educational policy, and implementation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Authentic Assessment in Action: Studies of Schools and Students at Work (the series on school reform). To get started finding Authentic Assessment in Action: Studies of Schools and Students at Work (the series on school reform), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Authentic Assessment in Action: Studies of Schools and Students at Work (the series on school reform)
Description: This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed "authentic" performance-based assessments of students' learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school. This important and timely book reveals the changing dynamics of classroom life as it moves from more traditional pedagogy to one that asks students to master intellectual and practical skills that are eminently transferable to "real-life" social settings and workplaces.Selected chapters: Authentic Assessment in Action - Graduation by Portfolio at Central Park East Secondary School - The Senior Project at Hodgson Vocational Technical High School - Collaborative Learning and Assessment at International High School - The Primary Language Record at P.S. 261 - The Bronx New School: Weaving Assessment into the Fabric of Teaching and Learning - Making Assessment Work for Students and SchoolsThis book will be important reading for practitioners, professors, and researchers of curriculum and instruction and educational policy, and will serve as a supplementary text in pre- and in-service courses in elementary and secondary curriculum development, curriculum and teaching, school organizations, educational leadership, educational policy, and implementation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Authentic Assessment in Action: Studies of Schools and Students at Work (the series on school reform). To get started finding Authentic Assessment in Action: Studies of Schools and Students at Work (the series on school reform), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.