Deciding What To Teach and Test.Fenwick W. English has taken the complex concepts of curriculum practice and translated them into understandable definitions and answers to the most commonly asked questions about curriculum development and assessment. Deciding What to Teach and Test is a 144-page, easy-to-read-and-use handbook that guides readers through the functions of curriculum, curriculum construction, curriculum alignment, and curriculum auditing. Busy administrator will particularly like the section devoted to definitions of commonly used terms, including front-loading, backloading, and tightening the curriuculum. English clearly and cogently co·gent adj. Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing: a cogent argument. See Synonyms at valid. [Latin c differentiates among the informal, the forma forma, adj/n minor elements between the members of a botanical species. ,, and the hidden curriculum; the written taught, and tested curriculum content and context alignment; and curriculum coordination and curriculum articulation articulation In phonetics, the shaping of the vocal tract (larynx, pharynx, and oral and nasal cavities) by positioning mobile organs (such as the tongue) relative to other parts that may be rigid (such as the hard palate) and thus modifying the airstream to produce speech . The fourth chapter details the curriculum audit process, differentiating it from the accreditation process. The chapter concludes with a checklist that systems can use to determine whether they are ready for the curriculum audit. (Deciding What to Teach and Test, by Fenwick W. English, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, Calif., order from AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators AASA Asian American Student Association AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army (Stock #21-00147), 1993, 144 pp., $16 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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