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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Learning to See about American, Rather, P>the with the genre: Education & Teaching, Schools & Teaching.
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conversations.value: The book challenges educators to view assessment as a process that changes according to what is learned from close observation of children in action. In other words, assessment and learning go hand in hand, but not in the way that assessment currently drives instruction in American education. Rather, assessment should inform educators as to how they can better respond to children. <P>the author's ideas are well grounded in the works of Susan Isaacs and Margaret Donaldson.. In an era when American education is preoccupied with raising test scores, it is refreshing to have another account of observation's time-honored role in assessment. This book will benefit a wide audience, given its philosophical and pragmatic strengths. -- Childhood Education, Spring 1996