Wiggins has written the most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance.
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:By showing us that assessment is more that testing and intellectual performance is more than right answers, Wiggins points the way toward new systems of assessment that more closely examine students′ habits of mind and provide teachers with more useful and credible feedback.
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"In the current torrent of talk about testing, Grant Wiggins′ book constitutes an essential contribution. Rooted in historical knowledge, punctuated by acute philosophical analyses, and mindful of policy issues, Wiggins lays out the rationale for authentic forms of assessment." —Howard Gardner, professor of education and co–director of Project Zero, Harvard University
GRANT P. WIGGINS is director of programs for the Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure (CLASS), a not–for–profit educational research and consulting organization in Geneseo, New York. He has consulted with numerous schools, districts, and states on assessment and curriculum reform, including Kentucky, California, New York, Vermont, and Maryland.
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