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Sherman, Tom; Kurshan, Barbara – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2005
Wiggins' view of understanding requires students to integrate facts, information, knowledge, and applications to develop understanding. Understanding, from this perspective, is an extensive web of interrelated ideas, experiences, and beliefs that transforms information from simple, memorized facts into knowledge that can be the basis for action.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Knowledge Level, Comprehension, Educational Technology