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Article: Critical issues that will determine the future of alternative assessment.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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Many practitioners are unsure whether to venture into the torrents of unfamiliar assessment strategies or to drift quietly in education's backwaters, waiting to see if this movement crests and ebbs as quickly as have dozens of others, Mr. Worthen observes.
Few current movements have caught the attention of educators as quickly as the move toward more direct assessment of student performance. Efforts to develop useful alternatives to standardized testing have proliferated during the past several years.[1] Major journals that serve educational practitioners have devoted large sections or entire issues to thoughtful analyses of assessment alternatives. (Interested ...