Education: examinations and assessment

This book is intended for anyone who is seriously interested in designing and validating multiple-choice test items that measure understanding and the application of knowledge and skills to complex situations, such as critical thinking and problem solving.

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings.

In today's climate of accountability and high-stakes testing, many U.

Presented as a series of case studies, this book offers the reader an insider's account of the power dynamics in Australian education and how the application of that power influences education policymaking.

This book addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives.

Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people - ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being.

This book explores the construct of reading comprehension by means of two main test methods.

This book describes culturally responsive data literacy (CRDL), which merges data literacy and culturally responsive practices to help educators assume a whole child perspective, an asset model, and an equity lens to the use of data.

Rapid-and seemingly accelerating-changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of workers in many new jobs.

Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model.

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment.

At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top.

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

Evaluations of school-based interventions are and should be conducted in order to examine the programme effectiveness and whether and how these programmes should be implemented in schools.

This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation.

Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid by Robert J.

This second edition of Student Affairs Assessment: Theory to Practice provides updated content that reflects current student affairs assessment practice and signals the direction in which the field is headed.

Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture.

This book offers a detailed analysis and assessment of the state of education round the world.

This edited book documents practices of learning-oriented language assessment through practitioner research and research syntheses.

Packed with useful tools, this practitioner guide and course text helps educators assess and teach essential literacy skills and strategies at all grade levels (PreK12).

This book is a detailed manual for the implementation of competence diagnostics in the field of vocational training.

This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs.

Barbara Muslic präsentiert umfassende Fallstudien und -vergleiche zur organisationalen Verarbeitung von Lernstandserhebungen unter Berücksichtigung bundeslandspezifischer institutioneller Regelungskontexte.

Accrediting agencies and legislatures have become increasingly insistent that governing boards and upper administrators undergo regular evaluation at colleges and universities.

Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights from art teachers in Canada and Europe, this edited volume explores the question of how learning in the arts can be effectively and fairly assessed in the context of higher education.

This book is a detailed manual for the implementation of competence diagnostics in the field of vocational training.

Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.

Each new headline about American students' poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching.

This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years.

'A unique blend of scholarly research-based principles of effective formative assessment with practical suggestions for use in the classroom.

What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual development, opportunities for future study and work, and choices of career, as well as their capacity to make informed decisions about political and civic issues and about their own lives.

This book adapts Rasch's approach for quantifying growth on physiological variables, where growth decelerates, to intellectual variables.

A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices.

The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing---a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to automatically adapt their selection to a real-time update of the test taker's ability estimate.

Kompetenzzuwachs im Politikunterricht wird durch kompetenzorientierten Unterricht besser erreicht als durch herkömmlichen Unterricht.

Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture.

All trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised ICT skills test.

The highly-anticipated second edition of the Foundations of Mixed Methods Research:Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences gives students a comprehensive overview of mixed methods from philosophical roots and traditions through designing, conducting, and disseminating a study.

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.

Wie gut sind Schüler auf das Leben vorbereitet?

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume.

Across the world, higher education is witnessing exponential growth in both student participation and types of educational providers.

This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach.

Now in a revised and expanded fifth edition that reflects current research and best practices in direct assessment and intervention, this text addresses a perennial need for school practitioners and practitioners in training.

The present book, Cases of Assessment in Mathematics Education, is one of two studies resulting from an ICMI Study Conference on Assessment in Mathematics Education and Its Effects.

A critical issue in higher education is the effective implementation of assessment with the core purpose of promoting productive student learning.