Beyond the bubble test : how performance assessments support 21st century learning /

• Main Author: Darling-Hammond, Linda, 1951-
• Other Authors: Adamson, Frank
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints, Wiley, 2014.
• Edition: First edition.
• Subjects: Educational tests and measurements > United States.; Curriculum-based assessment.; Exceptional children > Rating of.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.; EDUCATION > Administration > General.; EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.; Educational tests and measurements.; United States.; Electronic books.

Educators are unhappy with the current assessments and their focus on low-level skills like recalling and restating facts rather than higher-order skills such as problem-solving and analyzing and synthesizing information. This book examines performance assessment as an alternative to the current hig...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : the rationale and context for performance assessment
• Looking back : performance assessment in an era of standards-based educational accountability
• Where we are now : lessons learned and emerging directions
• Reaching out : international benchmarks for performance assessment
• Performance assessment : the state of the art
• Adapting performance assessments for English language learners
• Supporting teacher learning through performance assessment
• A new conceptual framework for cost analysis
• Investing in assessments of deeper learning : the costs and benefits of tests that help students learn
• Building systems of assessment for deeper learning
• Concluding thoughts : creating next-generation assessments that last.