Education: examinations and assessment

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies.

This book discusses the merits and potential shortcomings of Hong Kong STEM education from Grade 8 to Grade 12.

Have you been wondering how well your students understand engineering and technology concepts?

Oral Exams: Preparing For and Passing Candidacy, Qualifying, and Graduate Defenses provides guidance on how to prepare for oral comprehensive and viva voce exams.

This follow-up to A New Era in School Counseling, 2nd edition offers in-depth knowledge of how the school counselor, who is deeply embedded in all aspects of the educational system, can work most efficiently and effectively in the schools.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

A practical introduction to qualitative research across fields and disciplines Qualitative Research in Practice offers a hands-on introduction to qualitative research design, methods, data, and analysis.

This lively, concise and to-the-point guide offers hints and practical sugestions to help you develop good exam-preparation skills and build your confidence, so that you can get results that do justice to the work you've put in.

Contributors to the volume represent an international "e;who's who"e; of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement.

This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities.

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

This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies.

In education today, technology alone doesn't always lead to immediate success for students or institutions.

This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature.

This book takes a critical look at how students' achievements are assessed for a range of purposes, from reporting progress to selection and qualification.

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.

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

This book presents the state-specific dimensions of the governance of higher education in Bihar, India, based on a real-case perspective.

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This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test and for quantifying its characteristics.

What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms?

This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education.

Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools.

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 is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at the problem of cheating on assessments (tests) across all levels of the American educational system.

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight.

Facing an online assessment?

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.

Without building strong reading skills, students often struggle to perform well in school and in life.

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and language testing: shared ground where researchers seek to measure second language performance to better understand how people learn their second languages.

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend.

Why are standards so important, and how do they improve student learning?

Automatic item generation (AIG) represents a relatively new and unique research area where specific cognitive and psychometric theories are applied to test construction practices for the purpose of producing test items using technology.

This text integrates the theory and practice of learner-based assessment.

This book covers the current state of thinking and what it means to have a framework of representational competence and how such theory can be used to shape our understanding of the use of representations in science education, assessment, and instruction.

Corporate training and effective performance have become major issues in the 1980s and '90s.

This volume centres the notion of "e;chance"e; in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "e;tame"e; this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.

This book offers an overview of five categories of alternative assessments used by established and emerging faculty throughout Malaysian institutions of higher education, namely peer and self-assessment, group-based assessment, performance-based assessment, portfolio, and technology-based assessment.

This book traces how a new school, physically designed as a modern learning environment, has come into being in New Zealand.

Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current and future challenges.

Explore multiple practical and theoretical dimensions of needs assessment.

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society.

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

A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low.

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally.

This book traces the contours of higher education research in India.

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 book presents an international range of conversation analytic (CA) studies of classroom interaction which all discuss their empirical findings in terms of their theoretical and methodological contribution to the field of second language studies and their potential pedagogical relevance.

This contributed volume is an exciting product of the 22nd MAVI conference, which presents cutting-edge research on affective issues in teaching and learning math.