Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing (Jossey Bass Education Series) - Hardcover

Wiggins, Grant P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555425925 ISBN 13: 9781555425920

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993

Synopsis

Wiggins has written the most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance.
:?Educational Leadership

:By showing us that assessment is more that testing and intellectual performance is more than right answers, Wiggins points the way toward new systems of assessment that more closely examine students' habits of mind and provide teachers with more useful and credible feedback.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"In the current torrent of talk about testing, Grant Wiggins' book constitutes an essential contribution. Rooted in historical knowledge, punctuated by acute philosophical analyses, and mindful of policy issues, Wiggins lays out the rationale for authentic forms of assessment."--Howard Gardner, professor of education and co-director of Project Zero, Harvard University

About the Author:

GRANT P. WIGGINS is director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a not-for-profit educational research and consulting organization in Geneseo, New York. He has consulted with numerous schools, districts, and states on assessment and curriculum reform, including Kentucky, California, New York, Vermont, and Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1555425925
• ISBN 13: 9781555425920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316