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Performance Assessment: Moving Beyond the Standardized Test

In this timeless program, Dr. Art Costa-Professor Emeritus at California State University, Former President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and a leading proponent of the explicit teaching of thinking-addresses the urgent need to create viable alternatives to standardized tests that can measure creativity, problem-solving, and cooperation.

Monitoring Student Progress

This program focuses on how student assessment data can be used to evaluate and improve instructional priorities and strategies, to communicate high expectations, and to involve parents and the community in a school's efforts.

Performance Assessment: A Teacher’s Way of Knowing

Filmed in 1993, this program defines crucial elements of all assessments and visits three classrooms—a Head Start, a kindergarten, and a third grade—to show how the academic progress of young students can be evaluated without recourse to norm-referenced, standardized testing.