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Performance Assessment Of Aspiring School Leaders Grounded In An Epistemology Of Practice: A Case Study, Jessica E. Charles, Rebecca Cheung, Kristin Rosekrans
Performance Assessment Of Aspiring School Leaders Grounded In An Epistemology Of Practice: A Case Study, Jessica E. Charles, Rebecca Cheung, Kristin Rosekrans
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There is increasing interest in the field of leadership preparation about the opportunities that robust performance assessments may provide to capture and evaluate the complexity of school administrators’ work. Heretofore, the conversation about administrator performance assessment in leadership preparation has mainly centered on the development and impact of large statewide assessments that grow out of a Cartesian epistemology of individual knowledge possession, in which individuals must demonstrate mastery of a set of static knowledge and skills. We analyzed the characteristics of a performance assessment system that deliberately accounts for the organizational complexity of practice and knowledge generation in its design. …
Language Assessment Of Bilingual Children, Or "The Line Forms To The Right!", Olga Romero
Language Assessment Of Bilingual Children, Or "The Line Forms To The Right!", Olga Romero
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Discusses the complexity of language assessment for bilingual children and the implications the right assessment has for success in the classroom.
Looking Beyond Test Scores: An Approach To Reading Assessment, Claudia Grose
Looking Beyond Test Scores: An Approach To Reading Assessment, Claudia Grose
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
The following article grew out of four workshops presented in 1988 to educational evaluators, psychologists, and social workers at the New York City Board of Education. The workshops responded to requests to place the conventional assessment tools regularly used by these professionals into the context of recent research. Beyond the familiar tools and the themes developed here, a number of alternative assessment procedures are beginning to gain currency, opening avenues for new and creative ways to evaluate reading and writing. Until those new procedures gain wider acceptance, it is useful to consider how existing tools can be used more humanely …
Reassessing The Criteria Of Competence In Schools (1973), Edna Shapiro
Reassessing The Criteria Of Competence In Schools (1973), Edna Shapiro
Bank Street Thinkers
Shapiro defines competence in the various contexts in which it is used. She relates the findings of two studies carried out at Bank Street involving young children which illustrate how more sophisticated research strategies are necessary for evaluating competence in school.