Deborah Meier – författare

A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students

This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "differentiated" classrooms with large numbers of underperforming students. Drawing from Multiple Intelligences theory, the approach is specifically aimed at helping teachers understand how each student learns and how best to tailor instruction to serve individual students'' needs. Although the program makes use of conventional standardized tests and disability screenings, it places special importance on two approaches in particular: Student Portfolio Assessments and Personalized Learning Profiles.

Provides detailed guidance and practical tools (including a DVD) for implementing successful portfolio and "profile" practices in the classroom Includes real-world examples of model assessment programs from five schools Explains how to integrate assessment into the instructional process as well as how the portfolio program can be used

Formal profiles provide vital information about each student''s cultural background, interests, strengths, and capabilities as well as their individual learning and language needs.

A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students

This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "differentiated" classrooms with large numbers of underperforming students. Drawing from Multiple Intelligences theory, the approach is specifically aimed at helping teachers understand how each student learns and how best to tailor instruction to serve individual students'' needs. Although the program makes use of conventional standardized tests and disability screenings, it places special importance on two approaches in particular: Student Portfolio Assessments and Personalized Learning Profiles.

Provides detailed guidance and practical tools (including a DVD) for implementing successful portfolio and "profile" practices in the classroom Includes real-world examples of model assessment programs from five schools Explains how to integrate assessment into the instructional process as well as how the portfolio program can be used

Formal profiles provide vital information about each student''s cultural background, interests, strengths, and capabilities as well as their individual learning and language needs.

Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country.But, argue the authors of this citizen''s guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve:* How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives.Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what''s wrong and where we should go from here.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results. These assessments are more honest about what we can and cannot know about children’s knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Readers can compare and contrast each approach to determine which is most appropriate for their school.

Un problema fundamentalmente complejo sobre cómo evaluar el conocimiento de un niño no se puede reducir a una simple calificación de prueba. Ese es el argumento principal del libro Más allá de las pruebas, que describe siete formas de evaluación más efectivas que los resultados de las pruebas estandarizadas: (1) autoevaluaciones de los estudiantes, (2) observaciones directas del maestro sobre los estudiantes y su trabajo, (3) revisiones descriptivas del niño, (4) entrevistas de lectura y matemáticas con niños, (5) portafolios y defensa pública del trabajo de los estudiantes, (6) revisiones escolares y observaciones de profesionales externos, y (7) juntas escolares y reuniones de la ciudad.Según los destacados autores Deborah Meier y Matthew Knoester, estas evaluaciones serían lo que podemos y no podemos saber sobre el conocimiento, las habilidades y las disposiciones de los niños, y son más adaptables a las distintas misiones educativas. Por primera vez en español, el libro ganador del Critics'' Choice Award 2019 (American Educational Studies Association)."En una época en la que el uso de pruebas estandarizadas se ha visto como un mecanismo para mejorar los resultados educativos en todo el mundo, este libro ofrece a los educadores poderosas perspectivas y ejemplos detallados de formas en las que podemos descubrir, documentar y celebrar lo que los niños saben y pueden hacer. Lo recomiendo con entusiasmo a profesores, formadores de maestros y responsables de la formulación de políticas". Guadalupe Valdés, Profesora de Educación en la Universidad de Stanford.