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Wiggins, Grant; McTighe, Jay – 1998
This book explores ways to design courses and units to emphasize understanding and uncoverage rather than coverage, offering practical solutions for teacher-designers. It focuses on a different use for performance assessment, concluding that performance is the key to assessing understanding. The book analyzes the logic of backward design as an…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
August, Diane, Comp.; And Others – 1994
This paper presents recommendations designed to ensure that limited-English-proficient (LEP) children are included in proposals embodied in "Goals 2000." These are as follows: persons knowledgeable about the education of LEP students should be included in national, state and local panels; all educational reform activities should address…
Descriptors: Accountability, American Indian Education, American Indians, Change Agents