Teaching and Assessing Meaninfully in a Standards-Based World
Post submitted by Larry Levin and Betty Shoemaker, authors of Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks, 2nd ed., where they tackle the sparkles and blemishes of performance assessments. With expertise in performance-based assessment, differentiated instruction, literacy, integrated thematic curriculum, and teaching comprehension with student-based questioning, they are influencing decision makers about both the importance and quality of great classroom-based assessments instead of high stakes standardized tests. Connect with Levin by e-mail atlarry@larrylewin.com and Shoemaker at dr.betty.shoemaker@comcast.net.
“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
—John Dewey, Democracy And Education (1916)
We have some great news! The second edition of our book, Great Performances: Creating Classroom-based Assessment Tasks has just been published. We would like to say that it is single-handedly bringing adequate