Standards: The Philosophical Monster in the Classroom

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue APR, 1996, Pages 563-569

  Jervis, Kathe ^a   McDonald, Joseph ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (9)

1. All students' names are pseudonyms. We refer to teachers by their first names both because Cathy Skowron prefers it and because first names are an indication of the peer relationship, so essential for this work, that Kathe Jervis had with the teachers. Jervis has been a teacher for more than 25 years, most recently in middle school.
2. Dennie Palmer Wolf, "Curriculum and Assessment Standards: Common Measures or Conversations?," in Nina Cobb, ed., The Future of Education: Perspectives on National Standards in America (New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1994), pp. 86-87.
3. Provincetown Faculty, "Portfolio Assessment Using a Multidimensional Approach to Evaluating Student Learning," unpublished handbook, 1991.
4. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan, 1916).
5. Giselle Martin-Kniep, "Authentic Assessment in Practice," Holistic Education Review, vol. 6, 1983, pp. 52-58.
6. For an extensive discussion of teachers' oral communities, see Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L. Lytle, Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993).
7. Steve Seidel and Joseph Walters, "The 'Things' Children Make in School: Disposable or Indispensable?," Harvard Graduate School Alumni Bulletin, December 1994, pp. 18-20. Readers wanting a more detailed description of CACs can obtain a copy of Collaborative Assessment Conferences for the Consideration of Project Work from Harvard Project Zero, Longfellow Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138; ph. 617/495-4342. The price is $4.40, including postage and handling.
8. The Prospect Center Documentary Processes: In Progress (North Bennington, Vt.: Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research, 1986). Copies of this work are available from the Prospect Archive and Center, P.O. Box 326, North Bennington, VT 05257; ph. 802-442-8333. The price is $16.50, including postage and handling.
9. See Terry Baker, Gary Obermeyer, Kathe Jervis, and Susan Aldine, "Saving Face-to-Face: Network Moderators and the Construction of Collaborative Space for School Restructuring," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 1994.