| Description |
xiv, 160 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-151) and index. |
| Contents |
Weren't there always curriculum standards? -- An educational forum : politicians, kids, and teachers offer thoughts on education -- The origins of the current wave of public concern -- The response of the educational community -- Recent calls for reform -- Responses to the calls for reform -- A summary : systemic change, restructuring, and reform -- Are new standards necessary? -- Some charismatic differences of opinion -- The media influences opinion on standards -- The liberal reservations about standards -- Standards in other countries -- Influences on curriculum : state legislatures and education departments -- Local control of education -- Influences on curriculum : professional organizations and universities -- Influences on curriculum : the university -- Influences on curriculum : commercial materials -- Influences on curriculum : the teachers' right to choose -- Influences on curriculum : parents -- Getting ready to design curriculum -- What we now know about how learning happens -- An exciting conference -- Educational philosophy : Piaget and constructivism -- Recent interpretations of constructivism : radical constructivism -- Social constructivism -- A compromise -- The changing nature of the concept of intelligence -- Multiple intelligence theories -- The information processors -- Measuring cognitive ability -- Cognition, metacognition, and goals -- Interest -- Real experiences and technology in the instructional process -- Connecting research to practice : summary hypotheses -- Choosing standards and designing them down -- The curriculum committee meets -- A bit of history -- Defining standards in new terms -- Curriculum enactment -- Getting started on planning curriculum -- A template for action -- Constructing creative classrooms -- Organizing the environment -- The setting -- The actors -- The script -- How are we doing? -- Measuring success -- Standards and their measures -- The purposes of measures or assessments -- The consequences of assessments -- Where should Meg, April, and Brad begin? -- Traditional versus alternative assessments -- Challenge 1 : establishing validity, clarifying and covering constructs -- Challenge 2 : developing levels of performance, grading -- Challenge 3 : writing rubrics -- Challenge 4 : sharing results with students, parents, and the community -- Where do we go from here? -- Where will the leadership for needed change come from? -- Teacher professional development -- Teacher networks -- Using technology and its networks for building curriculum -- Technology for communicating with our public. |
| Subject |
Curriculum planning.
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Education -- Curricula -- Standards
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Educational tests and measurements.
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Curriculum-based assessment.
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| ISBN |
0803967055 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0803967047 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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