Education: examinations and assessment

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it.

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners.

Lists range from using positive assessment to increase students self-esteem to explaining various forms of assessment.

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

The papers in this book cover issues related to the development of novel statistical models for the analysis of data.

New technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular.

Identifies visual models of the knowledge and strategies students consider in the domains of reading, science and mathematics.

Instructors using the textbook, Supervising Student Teachers: The Professional Way, 7th Edition, will find its companion instructor's guide a helpful resource.

Published with Kappa Delta Pi, Creativity and Education in China takes readers on a journey through research-supported ideas and practical examples of creative and innovative schooling within a changing regime.

There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests.

Using Grading to Support Student Learning offers an accessible foundation for using grading practices to support student learning through classroom assessment.

In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W.

Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students.

Bernard R.

This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences.

This book adopts a multi-method and multi-phase approach to investigate the washback effects of Test for English Majors (TEM) on program administrators, teachers and students, shedding new light on TEM reform and the reform of English teaching and learning in China.

Equipped with cultural tools like cell phones, computers and video cameras, youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world; yet new teachers and students are still expected to learn and deliver standardized, placeless forms of scripted curriculum.

A new approach to training and evaluating world languages online instructorsThe rapid growth in online world language programs in the United States coupled with the widespread implementation of virtual teaching in response to COVID-19 have pushed the field to reconceive instruction.

A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material.

This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making.

Phil R.

This volume addresses both 'evidence of impact' and 'impact of evidence' to reveal the complex dialogue between the enterprise of teacher education and evidence of its effects in the early 21st century, taking a critical position on the very notions of 'evidence' and 'impact' that underpin contemporary policy frameworks.

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.

The 21st century is witnessing a rapid increase in the pace of knowledge creation in the sciences and engineering.

The aim of this book is to explore measures of mathematics knowledge, spanning K-16 grade levels.

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s.

Design and Technology evolved in the school curriculum from the mid 1960s.

This book offers a coherent research-based overview and analysis of theories and practices in using data to improve student learning.

The credentials environment grows more complicated by the day, but key questions help us understand why we need this book to help us grapple with those complexities: * Given the expansion in the variety of higher education credentials and in approaches to earning them, why are so many students disappointed with their post-secondary credentials?

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Designing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide to systematic design processes for learning environments that provide automatic customization of learning and instruction.

This textbook provides in-depth instruction for conducting psychoeducational assessments of children in grades K-12 and conveying results through detailed, well-written reports.

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Two of the most interesting conceptual turns in Richard E.

This book examines the following factors: sponsorship of research, control of the dissemination of research, effects of dominant research paradigms, financial interests of authors, publishers, and editors, role of new technologies (for example, Web 2.

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are a ubiquitous tool used in college classrooms, yet most instructors admit that they are not prepared to maximize the question's benefits.

This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement.

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

Located within the global changing contexts of higher education in the 21st century, this book examines the reform of the teaching and learning practices in Vietnamese universities under the Higher Education Reform Agenda and the influence of internationalization on the higher education sector.

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This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, or undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems.

This book is a practical guide to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) and the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/ CV; COE 2018), which have increasingly been used to inform the language policies and teaching practices of countries within and outside of Europe.

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students, either separately or in combination, as the health crisis was viewed as a factor intersecting with and exacerbating existing racial inequities in educational systems.

This book offers fresh perspectives on the challenges of assessment and feedback in higher education.

Achievement assessment has undergone a major shift, from what some call a `culture of testing' to a `culture of assessment'.