Education: examinations and assessment

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.

Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula.

How can elementary school teachers--the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades--feel more confident in their knowledge of science and teach science more effectively?

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade.

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

The internationalization of higher education is a world-wide phenomenon, subject to multiple interpretations at national, institutional and individual levels.

This book seeks to illustrate the research on mathematics competencies and disposition in China according to the conceptual development and empirical investigation perspective.

Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula.

Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children's cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community.

This book draws together leading student assessment academics from across Europe exploring student monitoring policies and practices in a range of countries across 22 chapters.

This book provides school principals and those responsible for pedagogical supervision the necessary tools for their professional development, whether in formal (continuing education) or informal (self-taught) contexts.

The results are in: observations are not improving teaching and learning.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing domain-specific and generic student learning and learning outcomes in higher education.

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Tough Test Questions?

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

The book reports on the development and validation of a computerized adaptive EFL test, which is used as an exit requirement for non-English-major undergraduates at a major Chinese university.

Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book AwardThis book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam.

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant.

Activity-based series, exam preparation skills, mapped to specification, developed with teachers, first teach September 2022.

Assessment is one of the most powerful tools in teaching, yet it is rarely measured in effort, time and effectiveness and is often done alone, against the clock and with minimal training.

Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability systems.

The clock is ticking and before you know, it will be September!

This book introduces a comprehensive RTP Model that reframes research to practice knowledge and inclusive education philosophy to promote the sustained use of research to promote and enhance meaningful education for all students.

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions.

More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios.

This book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through the use of graphical displays and analogies to familiar psychological principles.

This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context.

This book focuses on the use of the Rasch measurement model in validation studies and in analyzing the psychometric properties of a variety of test instruments, questionnaires, and scales in international contexts.

Presents a comprehensive treatment of issues related to the inception, design, implementation and reporting of large-scale education assessments.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Mixed Methods Research and Evaluation provides a user-friendly introduction for using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as part of a mixed methods approach to research and evaluation.

As local elections and other occurrences can transform a board and its direction, having a performance review cycle to ensure that all board members understand the philosophy undergirding the superintendent's evaluation is critical to ensuring that all members of the governing board are operating within a similar framework and purpose as they approach the superintendent's evaluation cycle.

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

In the second edition of this pivotal work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic, you will discover updated and improved resources to use formative data to support higher levels of student learning.

Classroom Data Tracking for grade 2 is a 160-page customizable resource that will transform how you track data and set goals in your classroom.

Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform provides background information on large-scale examination systems more generally and the South African examination specifically.

Measurement theory has only recently become recognized as a legitimate, specialized field of inquiry.

This book looks at educational institutions and their role as sites of learning in times of moral and political chaos.

An authoritative reference on one of education's hottest topics, describing how the latest testing and assessment tools can be used to help improve student performance.

This book discusses the issues of equity-based education in India and advocates for providing fair and inclusive system of education.

Chronicling a high-profile and ambitious teacher preparation reform project that took place across 11 diverse U.

Grounded in contemporary, evidence-based research, Assessment for Teaching provides a comprehensive introduction to assessment and teaching in school settings.

Despite the advances in educational effectiveness theory and methodology in the last 20 years, important questions and issues remain unresolved.

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 a detailed account of the origin, development, administration, revision and subsequent research findings on the benchmarking initiative from 1996-2016.