The Heart of the Matter

Author: Beverly Falk
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0325002800

The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessment to Learn

For too many years, in too many schools, implementing higher standards has meant using the same methods to teach more and harder content, usually unsuccessfully. Download The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessment to Learn from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. With this important book, Beverly Falk challenges that thinking. She explores the complexities of assessment, accountability, and standards-based reform, and their impact on classroom practice. And by offering strategies for using standards and assessments to support meaningful learning for all students, she truly gets to the heart of the matter. Included are the tools for moving forward and using education to improve the lives of children: an examination of the problems of traditional standardized tests - and of the benefits of performance assessments an overview of how performance Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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