In the Classroom: “If You Build It, They Will Come”

Kathy Hargrove

“If you build it, they will come” has become something of a cliché since it was first spoken in the film Field of Dreams. Perhaps it has become platitudinous, intoned with an air of unwarranted significance. But the fact is that overused or not, it does express a truth. In the classroom, for example, we know that students learn what we teach. The idea behind the deep alignment of curriculum and assessment is that what we teach must be what we measure.

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