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Testing for learning : how new approaches to evaluation can improve American schools

Title
Testing for learning : how new approaches to evaluation can improve American schools / Ruth Mitchell.
Author
Mitchell, Ruth, 1933-
Publication
New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1992.

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Description
xviii, 222 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Educational tests and measurements > United States
  • Education > United States > Evaluation
  • Educational evaluation > United States
  • Academic achievement
  • Assessment portfolios
  • Educational testing
  • Evaluation methods
  • Performance
  • Performance based assessment
  • Student assessment
  • History teaching
  • Parent participation
  • Science tests
  • Self evaluation (Individuals)
  • Social studies
  • State programs
  • Writing evaluation
  • Quantitative tests
  • Educational evaluation
  • Education > Evaluation
  • Educational tests and measurements
  • Qualitätssteigerung
  • Schulleistungsmessung
  • Schule
  • Academic achievement > Evaluation
  • Educational evaluation
  • Educational tests and measurements
  • Examinations
  • Schule
  • Schulleistungsmessung
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.
Contents
From testing to assessment -- Assessing writing in California, Arizona, and Maryland -- Examples of performance assessments in science and mathematics -- Getting students, parents, and the community into the act -- Portfolios -- Teachers and assessment: privilege and responsibility -- How American education got into the testing trap -- Next steps.
ISBN
  • 0029214653
  • 9780029214657
LCCN
91027896
OCLC
  • ocm24173288
  • 24173288
  • SCSB-1935888
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library