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The CSSR staff has recently been published in
Educational Leadership, Education Week, and Principal’s Research
Review.
The April Issue of Educational Leadership, published by the
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and distributed
to its 170,000 members, includes an article written by Joe DiMartino and
Andrea Castaneda entitled Assessing Applied Skills that suggests that
authentic assessments could provide a vehicle for changing instruction
in high schools. The authors argue that the Carnegie unit, awarding
course credit for seat time, is working against efforts to teach and
test 21st Century workforce skills.
Joe DiMartino wrote the back page editorial in the
April 25, 2007 issue of Education Week. It focused on the value of a
move toward authentic assessment in changing pedagogy in the high
school. “In the same way that conventional assessments have,
performance assessments will drive curriculum and instruction, which in
turn influence scheduling, pedagogy, and teaching assignments.”
The May
2007 issue of the National Association of Secondary School Principals
Principals Research Review, which focused on Academic Engagement of
All Students, was written by Michael Brownstein, Joe DiMartino, and
Sherri Miles. It summarized the research on academic engagement that
suggests, trusting relationships, curricula that reflect student’s
aspirations, real world connected curricula and project-based learning
will increase academic engagement and achievement for all students.
Link to PDF document of the article. |
