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The Assessment Bridge: Positive Ways to Link Tests to Learning, Standards, and Curriculum Improvementreviewed by Marcy Bullmaster - 2003 Title: The Assessment Bridge: Positive Ways to Link Tests to Learning, Standards, and Curriculum Improvement Author(s): Pearl G. Solomon Publisher: Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks ISBN: 0761945946, Pages: 160, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Even in times of imminent war and economic peril, U.S. public
education policy remains front-page, primetime news. Hardly a day
passes in the nation without a major story about the sanctions and
rewards to schools, educators, and students that are now familiar
features of the standards-and-accountability policy
landscape. Public discourse about high-stakes testing is
often heated, with impassioned arguments on both sides as to
whether such testing will widen or narrow the opportunity for all
students to learn to high levels.
As her title indicates, The Assessment Bridge: Positive Ways
to Link Tests to Learning, Standards, and Curriculum
Improvement is Pearl G. Solomon’s effort to contribute a
synthesis of action steps to the accountability debate. Accepting
what she terms HSSB (high-stakes, standards-based) tests as a
current reality with which educators must contend, Solomon presents
a “vision of how distally produced tests, generated far from
the students they measure, can fit into the overall role of
assessment as a guide to instruction…[and] how schools and
teachers can build their... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Marcy Bullmaster
Kaplan K12 Learning Services E-mail Author MARCY BULLMASTER is Executive Director of Curriculum, Kaplan K12 Learning Services. Her professional interests include curriculum design, assessment, teacher education, and teacher professional development.
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