Education: examinations and assessment

With foreword by Cassandra ErkensThe assessment process can be a rich experience for you and your students.

The modeling of item response data is governed by item response theory, also referred to as modern test theory.

Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment.

All students deserve research-based, systematic support and a team that is committed to their success.

This book presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the educational governance reform trajectory and the latest issues in China, addressing several important topics such as administration, internal management, provision, enrollment, employment, financing, examinations, evaluation and quality assurance.

This is a practical resource for community and two year college professionals engaged at all levels of learning outcomes assessment, in both academic and co-curricular environments.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century.

This timely book takes stock of the wide range of developments in society, education and assessment and offers conclusions and strategies that are necessary for the future of educational assessment.

Formative Messmodelle sind in der Psychologie und Erziehungswissenschaft weitgehend unbekannt, wohingegen sie in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften zum Standardrepertoire gehören.

This essential handbook is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the assessment of gifted and advanced students and their programs, and a must-have resource for coordinators and directors at state and local levels.

There have been many important changes in the participation of women and men in American society over the past quarter-century.

This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples.

Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face.

As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused.

High Stakes brings the voices of students and teachers to our national debates over school accountability and educational reform.

In today's rapidly changing and information-rich world, students are not acquiring adequate knowledge and skills to prepare them for careers in mathematics, science, and technology with the traditional approach to assessment and instruction.

This book examines synchronous and asynchronous teaching in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment.

Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern among many educational policy makers, assessment specialists, and classroom teachers over questions of access and fairness, particularly for learners from culturally different backgrounds and those with a history of academic struggles.

This book discusses teacher evaluation and how it can provide the foundations for professional development.

This volume describes, compares, and analyses the experience of 'defending' the doctoral dissertation in a final oral examination in universities and traditions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond.

Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality.

This book demonstrates how a participatory approach to assessment and accreditation in their new forms creates a synergy for learner-centered education.

Attempting fonnally to evaluate something involves the evaluator coming to grips with a number of abstract concepts such as value, merit, worth, growth, criteria, standards, objectives, needs, nonns, client, audience, validity, reliability, objectivity, practical significance, accountability, improvement, process, pro- duct, fonnative, summative, costs, impact, infonnation, credibility, and - of course - with the tenn evaluation itself.

This book shares the collective experience of integrating electronic portfolios as assessment tools and as instruments for life-long learning in courses across various disciplines in higher education.

Learning strategies and academic performance have been extensively investigated but relatively few studies were conducted in East Asia.

This book examines the unexplored dimensions in the teacher education sector in India.

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This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for the last two decades.

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If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing.

How do you know if your school is improving?

Presenting original studies and rich conceptual analyses, this volume explores how cognitive and affective metrics can be used to effectively assess, modify, and enhance learning and assessment outcomes of simulations and games used in education and training.

This book collects papers on education quality assessment based on AI technology and introduces the latest research direction and progress of AI technology in the field of education and teaching, including classroom teaching quality assessment, online education quality assessment, teaching reflection quality assessment, etc.

Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models.

This second edition of the best-selling, award-winning Design in Five offers new and targeted information for reimagining assessment practices, as well as refined processes and protocols to fully engage learners.

This edited volume documents attempts to conduct systematic and prodigious research using multilevel analysis in educational settings, and present their findings and identify future research directions.

Noticing is an essential aspect of professional expertise in teaching - a skill that draws on deep professional knowledge in ways that affect how teachers are aware of, respond to and meet the needs of their students.

Assessing Unstoppable Learning explains how K-12 teachers and administrators can work in collaborative teams to form effective and efficient assessment systems in their schools that help all students maximize their learning.

This edited collection of presentations by major speakers at AAHE's 1999 and 2000 Assessment Conferences offers cutting-edge ideas from: Jorge Klor de Alva; Noel Entwistle; James Anderson; Victor Borden; Jean MacGregor, Vincent Tinto, Jerri Holland Lindblad; Barbara Wright; and others.

This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development.

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology.

Measurement Theory in Action, Third Edition, helps readers apply testing and measurement theories and features 22 self-contained modules which instructors can match to their courses.

This book 'Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics' provides an overview of contemporary psychometrics, the science devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education and the social sciences.

This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.

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Teaching Middle Years has established itself as the leading text to focus on the adolescent years of schooling.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.