Reaching the Zone of Optimal Learning: The Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

by: Stephen J. Farenga, Beverly A. Joyce, and Daniel Ness

The authors discuss curriculum, instruction, and assessment and how their integration enables students to achieve a strong knowledge base in science. After examining conventional beliefs and more contemporary views of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, the authors demonstrate how various overlaps of any two of the three components affect science learning and literacy. The overlap of all three components leads to what the authors call the Zone of Optimal Learning.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2002Stock # PB158X_5

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