Let's Slow the Jump on the ___ Assessment Bandwagon

Authors

Gregory E. Dunn, Grant Wood Area Education Agency 10

Document Type

Issue Area One

Abstract

Contrary to what you may think, I did not forget to "fill in the blank" in the title of this paper. Actually I'm just a little confused as to the proper term to use. Should I fill the blank with "alternative" (Worthen, 1993), "authentic" (Wiggins, 1989), "direct" (Willis, 1990), "performance-based" (Herman, Aschbacher, & Winters, 1992), "functional" (Iowa Department of Education, 1991), or "curriculum-based" (Deno, 1987; Tucker, 1985)? It gets even more confusing when writers use terms as synonyms for each other (Herman et al.; Willis) or when writers use the same term but define it differently (Linn, Baker, & Dunbar, 1991; Rakow, 1992; Wiggins).

Journal Title

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Volume

4

Issue

2

First Page

25

Last Page

31

Publisher

Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©1993 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Dunn, Gregory E. (1993) "Let's Slow the Jump on the ___ Assessment Bandwagon," Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 4: No. 2, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol4/iss2/9