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Measuring Up: Standards, Assessment, and School Reform Contributor(s): Rothman, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0787900559 ISBN-13: 9780787900557 Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: March 1995 Annotation: In recent years, schools have been sweeping away traditional notions of how we know what students know. Testing is on the front lines of the education reform debate - by one estimate, the 41 million schoolchildren in America take 127 million tests annually - and the shift in student assessment is turning education itself upside down. In Measuring Up, Robert Rothman clearly and objectively explains the upheaval in thinking about testing that could dramatically transform American education. Click for more in this series: Jossey-Bass Education |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Testing & Measurement - Education | Standards (incl. Common Core) - Education | Aims & Objectives |
Dewey: 371.264 |
LCCN: 94043300 |
Series: Jossey-Bass Education |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.26" W x 9.31" L (0.93 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/1995 pg. 1458 Publishers Weekly 03/20/1995 pg. 53 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The question that dismays all teachers and ought to concern everyparent because of what it reveals about what school can do to achild's curiosity -- ?Will this be on the test?' -- will never beanswered again in the same way. Bob Rothman offers a rich andcompelling account of the unfolding revolution in testing inAmerica's schools. -- Richard P. Mills, Vermont commissioner of education An award-winning journalist, Rothman cuts through the assessmentdebate -- a debate often characterized by misrepresentations andjargon -- to offer a highly accessible examination of the shift inthinking about testing. He underscores that any change must beginwith the And: what we want students to know and be able to do. Suchchanges demand a new way of knowing what students can achieve--anda system that enables them to achieve. |
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