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EDITORIAL
Standards, standards, standards . . .
Staff from the California Department of Education, Business Education Resource Consortium, along with educators
and business leaders spent many long hours this Spring updating the Business Education Challenge Standards. The
results of their efforts are available on this web site for review.
Standards define what aspects of student performance should be assessed. Mary Diez, professor of education and
dean of the graduate program at Alverno College in Milwaukee, writing in Education Week, May 3, 2000 states that
“The standards movement holds the promise of revolutionizing teaching and learning in our schools. It can only
do so, however, if teachers fully understand the power of assessment in the service of student learning.”
In deciding what form of assessment to use consider the following:
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which method should I choose? |
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Selected Response |
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Essay |
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- multiple choice
- true/false
- matching
- fill in
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Personal Communication |
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Performance |
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- questions
- conferences
- interview
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- skills
- products
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SOURCE: Stiggins, Richard J. Student-Centered Classroom Assessment (Merrill,
1994) |
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does a standard lend itself to a particular type of assessment due to the particular
nature of the standard? |
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does the time required for the assessment match the relative importance of the standard
being assessed? |
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