The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessment to Learn

by Beverly Falk

For too many years, in too many schools, implementing higher standards has meant using the same methods to teach more and harder content, usually unsuccessfully. With this important book, Beverly Falk challenges that thinking. She explores the complexities of assessment, accountability, and standards-based reform, and their impact on classroom practice. And by offering strategies for using standards and assessments to support meaningful learning for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002800
• ISBN13: 9780325002804
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5