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Curriculum and assessment policy : 20 questions for board members /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brickell, Henry M.
Other Authors: Paul, Regina H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2005.
Subjects:
Curriculum planning > United States.
Educational tests and measurements > United States > Planning.
School boards > United States > Decision making.
Table of Contents:
  • A job for civilians
  • The policy clock
  • Overview of the policy clock
  • Goals and objectives
  • Policies
  • Regulations
  • Operations documents
  • Process reports with standards
  • Product reports with standards
  • How to use the discussion guides
  • The board's point of entry
  • The curriculum revision schedule
  • An obligation or option for teachers
  • State curriculum standards as a source of curriculum objectives
  • Other sources of curriculum objectives
  • Difficulty of the objectives
  • Affective objectives
  • Teaching schedule for the objectives
  • Guiding instruction
  • Communication to parents
  • National, state and district tests
  • The amount of testing time
  • Types of assessments for measuring and judging learning
  • Types of questions in traditional paper-and pencil district tests
  • Test "forms" and test question "pools"
  • Board inspection of actual tests
  • Frequency of measurement
  • Sampling students
  • Setting standards
  • Analyses, interpretations, and recommendations accompanying test results
  • Sample documents for board members.