1st Edition

Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of Assessment

Edited By David Moss, Terry A. Osborn, Douglas Kaufman Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of Assessment addresses a prevalent need in educational scholarship today. Many current standards-driven curricula follow strict subject-specific guidelines, leaving educators little room for interdisciplinary innovation. This book gears itself toward developing assessment models specific to interdisciplinary education, positioning itself as a seminal... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1 The Promise of Interdisciplinary Assessment, David M. Moss, Terry A. Osborn and Douglas Kaufman

Chapter 2 Assessment Is Not a Dirty World: Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors in Interdisciplinary Learning Environments, Scott W. Brown

Chapter 3 Assessment as Process: Transdisciplinary Self Evaluation from a Writer’s Point of View, Douglas Kaufman

Chapter 4 Beyond Trivial Science: Assessing Understandings of the Nature of Science, David M. Moss, John Settlage and Catherine Koehler

Chapter 5 Re-Solving the Tension Between Interdisciplinarity and Assessment: The Case of Mathematics, Jean Burelle, Katherine McGivney and Jane Wilbur

Chapter 6 Hello Dolly!: Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Authentic Assessment, and Citizenship, Alan S. Marcus

Chapter 7 Language Learning as an Interdisciplinary Endeavor, Terry A. Osborn

Chapter 8 Rethinking Our Focus on the Future: Reading Assessment in the Transdisciplinary Secondary English Classroom, Wendy J. Glenn

Chapter 9 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Bilingual Student Assessment: Creating Authentic Reflections of Meaningful Learning Opportunities, Mileidis Gort

Chapter 10 Interdisciplinary Assessment: A System at the Heart of Teaching and Learning across Domains, Jacqueline Kelleher

Chapter 11 In Praise of Complexity: Moving Interdisciplinary Assessment in Education from Theory to Practice, Douglas Kaufman, David M. Moss, and Terry A. Osborn

List of Contributors

Biography

David M. Moss, Terry A. Osborn, Douglas Kaufman