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Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1996
Reviews current trends away from multiple-choice testing to alternative forms of student evaluation. Discusses elements contributing to these trends: emphases on critical-thinking skills and active learning, research supporting a constructivist view of learning, efforts to develop academic standards and companion performance-based assessments, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Alternative Assessment, Constructivism (Learning)