The ambiguity of teaching to the test : standards, assessment, and educational reform

By W. Firestone, Roberta Y. Schorr, Lora Monfils. 2004

144 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems

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1. Richard A. Lesh
2. John Y. Baek
3. H. Tillema
4. William A. Sandoval

Citations in the corpus

• Teacher professional learning and development: Best evidence synthesis iteration (2007, result): “What are the qualities of the professional learning opportunities that lead teachers to interpret and utilise the available understandings and skills in ways that lead to positive student outcomes? This task required an approach different from that of a traditional literature review or meta-analysis”
• Learning opportunities to support student self-regulation: comparing different instructional formats (2006, background): “It has been found that students often attach higher task value to the more traditional teaching formats because of the prevailing testing and grading conditions (Firestone et al., 2004).”
• Promoting professional inquiry for improved outcomes for students in New Zealand (2009, background): “…prior beliefs (Coburn, 2001) or over-assimilation whereby teachers believe that their changes in practice are consistent with what is proposed, when, in reality, the changes represent the new information in superficial ways only (Spillane, 2000; Firestone et al., 2004; Hammerness et al., 2005).”
• Handbook Of Design Research Methods In Education: Innovations In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Learning And Teaching (2018, background): “…during a lesson about addition), but to investigate a teacher’s understanding of manipulatives, it may be more important to understand how teachers see the classroom situation when they are using manipulatives for a mathematics lesson (Firestone et al., 2004; Schorr & Koellner-Clark, 2003).”