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Although teachers across the country are creating new knowledge in their classrooms, researchers' preoccupations with large-scale assessment policies leave out any vital discussion of teachers' efforts, experience, and insights. In Eyes on the Child: Three Portfolio Stories, Kathe Jervis corrects that omission by presenting three case studies of teachers implementing authentic assessment. Her thoughtful descriptions of classrooms in three schools reveal how teachers address policy issues as they put portfolios into practice, as well as how they respond to the particular needs of their students and of their own values. The individual classroom settings for these case studies encompass an impressive range: elementary and high school, single and combined-grade classes, regular and special education, individual and team teachers; the schools are affiliates of Foxfire, the Coalition of Essential Schools, and Harvard's Project Zero. Though the contexts are different and the approaches vary, the teachers in these cases share an extraordinary commitment to grappling with assessment issues on behalf of their students. Their stories, like the portfolios they are implementing, are works in pr

Author

Jervis, Kathe.

Publisher

Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (paperback: ISBN-0-8077-3514-0, $19.95; clothbound: ISBN-0-8077-3515-9)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807735152

Subjects

Education, Study Aids