Education: examinations and assessment

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment.

This essential guide helps teachers refine their approach to fundamental challenges in the classroom.

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, particularly the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of the students' tertiary experience.

This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education.

From a cultural history of the essay to incisive contemporary rethinking of its usefulness in the classroom, from guides on how to write a seminar paper to guides on how to assess them, Making the Grade offers desperately needed clarity on a complex genre.

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

Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance.

"e;an invaluable guide for practitioners, quality assurors, university managers and students themselves who wish to better understand the importance of assessment for learning, and it will further scholarship in the field significantly.

Are you thinking about applying to teacher training in England?

This book, along with its companion volume Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms, was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England.

While there is consensus that institutions need to represent their educational effectiveness through documentation of student learning, the higher education community is divided between those who support national standardized tests to compare institutions' educational effectiveness, and those who believe that valid assessment of student achievement is based on assessing the work that students produce along and at the end of their educational journeys.

What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice?

A fully updated and illustrated handbook providing comprehensive coverage of all curriculum areas covered by the MRCOG Part 1 examination.

Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information requirements of those who are shaping educational policy or managing edu- cational systems.

This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization.

This book represents an exposition of 'judicial pedagogies' as a new concept, and discusses juridical-educational issues in detail, through an analysis of the educational claims and assumptions of judges' decisions in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

This book examines how the career counselling profession should respond to the changes in the world of work that have resulted from the increasing need to communicate faster and disseminate information more efficiently.

Every state has developed some form of early learning standards.

What is a rubric?

The second edition of the Handbook of Test Development provides graduate students and professionals with an up-to-date, research-oriented guide to the latest developments in the field.

This is the only revision resource devoted to anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts.

The book takes a closer look at the theoretical and empirical basis for a competence-based view of models and modeling in science learning and science education research.

This book discusses Hong Kong's use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations.

Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today's best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.

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 comprehensive, research-based textbook equips teachers with the tools they need to comprehend and document the learning progression and academic growth of young learners.

In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades.

Learning Analytics in the Classroom presents a coherent framework for the effective translation of learning analytics research for educational practice to its practical application in different education domains.

Moving beyond the expectations and processes of conventional teacher evaluation, this book provides a framework for teacher evaluation that better prepares educators to serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners.

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching English in primary and secondary schools.

The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education.

This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education.

The goal of this book is to emphasize the formal statistical features of the practice of equating, linking, and scaling.

This edited book is a collection of papers, written by language assessment professionals to reflect the guidance of Professor Lyle F.

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.

Using Self-Assessment to Improve Student Learning synthesizes research on self-assessment and translates it into actionable guidelines and principles for pre-service and in-service teachers and for school leaders, teacher educators, and researchers.

Updated to align with the American Psychological Association and the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education accreditation requirements.

Every state has developed some form of early learning standards.

This book highlights the impact of policy and politics on assessment across the globe.

An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in AmericaWhat is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters?

Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district.

The rising reliance on testing in American education and for licensure and certification has been accompanied by an escalation in cheating on tests at all levels.

'The number of two-year-olds entering our settings has been increasing over the last few years, and with the government set to continue with the expansion of free places, more and more practitioners will be caring for children in this age range for the first time.

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.

Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume II: Advanced Methods demonstrates advanced quantitative techniques for language assessment.

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback.

Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the 21st century.

This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "e;failing"e; schools in the United States.