Information Technology & Goals of Standards-Based Instruction

This article examines goals of standards-based reform in education and ways in which developments in information technology have facilitated those goals. Since standards-based reform is a rather general concept, I begin by developing a more specific formulation which I refer to as the “standards-based instruction and assessment” model. Developments in information technology over the last fifteen years have contributed in important ways to the goals of standards-based reform at the policy level, but difficult organizational and technical challenges still have to be overcome to realize more fully the goal of standards-based instruction and assessment in instructional management and practice within schools and classrooms

Information Technology & Goals of Standards-Based Instruction

This article examines goals of standards-based reform in education and ways in which developments in information technology have facilitated those goals. Since standards-based reform is a rather general concept, I begin by developing a more specific formulation which I refer to as the “standards-based instruction and assessment” model. Developments in information technology over the last fifteen years have contributed in important ways to the goals of standards-based reform at the policy level, but difficult organizational and technical challenges still have to be overcome to realize more fully the goal of standards-based instruction and assessment in instructional management and practice within schools and classrooms

Archbald, Douglas A., and Andrew C. Porter, Curriculum Control and Teacher\u27s Perceptions of Autonomy and Satisfaction, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 16(Spring, 1994), 21-39.

Reports teachers\u27 perceptions of various curriculum control policy instruments and their impact

Porter, Andrew C., Douglas A. Archbald, and Alexander K. Tyree, Jr., Reforming the Curriculum: Will Empowerment Policies Replace Control? pp. 11-36 in Susan H. Fuhrman and Betty Malen, eds., The Politics of Curriculum and Testing: The 1990 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association . Philadelphia: Falmer, 1991.*

Reports recent developments in math and social studies and analyzes the processes of policy control and teacher empowerment in these contexts