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- Volume 25
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2002
Using Performance Assessment in the Social Studies Classroom
Tonya R. Moon
Balancing recommended practices in the social studies classroom with state-mandated accountability pressures is a challenge for educators. Recognizing the need for accountability but concerned with the narrowing of the curriculum that current versions of statemandated testing might promote, the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) has argued for social studies assessment that is well-aligned with major social studies goals and more reallife in the types of activities that are given to students. According to NCSS (1991), a comprehensive and balanced plan for social studies assessment should include, among others, a range of performance assessments where students take a reasoned position on a controversial social issue. They strongly support looking at the process that students use, not merely the answers they choose.
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