Learning Standards and Assessments

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This paper reviews and discusses the new learning standards and method of assessment developed by the state of New York. According to the paper, if this standards-driven curriculum is implemented appropriately, it can have a meaningful impact on education.

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"As Tomlinson (2000) explains, there doesn't have to be a contradiction between standards-based instruction and differentiation and standards-based instruction doesn't imply the necessity for a narrow curriculum that meets the requirements of state tests. Curriculum guides what is taught while differentiation guides how it is taught. Differentiation can be used to teach the same standard to a range of learners by using diverse teaching and learning modes. Curriculum doesn't have to be narrow to increase chances of success on standardized tests. Rather, differentiation means that teachers can challenge all students by "providing materials and tasks on the standard at varied levels of difficulty, with varying degrees of scaffolding, through multiple instructional groups, and with time variations" (Tomlinson, 2000). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Closing the achievement gap. http://www.subnet.nga.org/educlear/achievement/
• Fiske, E.B. (1998, February 9). Opponents want more freedom for schools to set own agendas : quest for standards splits U.S. educators. International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/02/09/sover.t.php
• It takes more than testing......closing the achievement gap (2001, Summer). http://www.masb.org/pdf/spreportsum.pdf
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• National Commission on Excellence in Education. (1983). A nation at risk: The imperative for educational reform. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

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