Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda

by Chris W. Gallagher

No Child Left Behind and accountability programs generally operate via assessment-driven instruction causing a de-professionalization of teachers and a disengagement of students. Chris Gallagher offers us an alternative: instruction-driven assessment with teachers as the primary assessment instrument. It looks like a way to restore teachers as professionals and to restore students as engaged learners . . . and it looks doable.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032500918X
• ISBN13: 9780325009186
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12