Assessment, Teaching and Learning – The Gordon Commission and the Narrative Toward Why

Assessment, Teaching and Learning – Volume I, Issue No.1, September 2011:

The Gordon Commission and the Narrative Toward Why  click to view/download .pdf

Summary:
• The teaching person is a guide, a coach, a model, an orchestrator, a stimulator, and a resource person.
• Intellective competence is less focused on what we want learners to know and do, and is more sharply focused on what it is that we want learners to become.
• Achievement standards are central, but what we want learners to know about specific disciplines and to be able to do in meeting these standards must be considered as instrumental to the achievement of intellective competence.
• Assessment in education should inform and improve teaching and learning processes and outcomes.
• Assessment, teaching, and learning will — out of necessity — have to be appropriate to the diversity in the population that must be served and informative of the teaching and learning processes in which they will be embedded.

 

Assessment, Teaching and Learning – Volume II, Issue No.1, February 2012: A New Vision of Pedagogy