Can Performance-Based Assessments Improve Urban Schooling? [electronic resource] / Carol Ascher.

Performance-based assessment has the potential to support a richer curriculum and more accurately assess the skills of low-income minority students than standardized tests. Performance-based assessment has the following advantages: (1) it allows a wide range of expression; (2) it permits assessment...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Ascher, Carol, 1941-
Corporate Author:	ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
Series:	ERIC/CUE digest ; no. 56.
Subjects:	Disadvantaged Youth. Educational Innovation. Educational Testing. Elementary Secondary Education. Evaluation Methods. Evaluation Problems. Literature Reviews. Performance Based Assessment. Standardized Tests. Student Evaluation. Test Bias. Testing. Testing Problems. Urban Education.