Expertise: Assessment
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Description
Studies the affect of the current Test is Best climate and how schools and teachers are racing to define student achievement using various assessment tools. Understands of how standardized tests, textbook driven quizzes, and home-grown assessment tools can seem complicated and overwhelming to both educators and laypeople alike.
Qualifications
Laura Thomas has worked in and with schools on assessment issues for nearly twenty years. She has taught the assessment course at ANE since 2003 and is the author of
Assessment in the Critical Skills Classroom.