Education: examinations and assessment

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning.

Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face.

This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning.

Systematic Classroom Assessment promotes a fresh vision of assessment for student learning and achievement.

Written with faculty in mind, Assessment by Design is a practical resource that will also be useful to student affairs staff and administrators dedicated to using assessment to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular settings.

Providing insight into the background, theory and practical applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Transforming Higher Education through Universal Design for Learning: An International Perspective examines and shares best practice in UDL implementation worldwide to provide strategies for strengthening student accessibility, engagement and learning outcomes through the development of flexible learning environments.

The second edition of Effective Grading the book that has become a classic in the field provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading.

This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades.

Formative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy-makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement.

This Assessing and Improving Student Organization (AISO) program is intended as a guide for leaders of student-led college organizations.

The Uses of Schooling, first published in 1988, proposes a radically different approach to the evaluation of education.

This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy.

Case Studies in Needs Assessment offers insights about the practice of needs assessment in dynamic, real-world organizations and communities.

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success?

Feedback from students to teachers has been shown to have a major influence on students' achievement.

Assessing Unstoppable Learning explains how K-12 teachers and administrators can work in collaborative teams to form effective and efficient assessment systems in their schools that help all students maximize their learning.

This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education.

Demystifying Scholarly Metrics gives librarians and faculty the confidence to navigate the maze of scholarly metrics, identify quality journals in which to publish, and measure the impact of scholarly works.

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For the first time, school districts around the country are being required to adopt formal accountability measures to assess teacher effectiveness.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

Presenting original studies and rich conceptual analyses, this volume reports on theoretical issues involved in the use of simulations and games in educational assessment.

This is the second edition of an introductory text that describes the principles of invariant measurement; how invariant measurement can be achieved using Rasch measurement theory; and how to use invariant measurement to solve a variety of measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors' considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during the evaluation process, particularly that of the responsive or democratic type.

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

To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them.

Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education.

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.

This volume describes, compares, and analyses the experience of 'defending' the doctoral dissertation in a final oral examination in universities and traditions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond.

Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment.

Assessing Competencies for Social and Emotional Learning explores the conceptualization, development, and application of assessments of competencies and contextual factors related to social and emotional learning (SEL).

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement(R) Government and Politics Exam.

This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups.

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

Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas.

The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement.

This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa.

The third edition of Assessing Readers continues to bridge the gap between authentic, informal, and formative assessments and more traditional quantitative and summative assessment approaches.

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@text:This volume stems from the 2003 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference that convened leading scholars and practitioners from education, psychology, economics, statistics and public policy to discuss the important topic of measurement and accountability.

Rubrics offer concrete artefacts of what schools evaluate to be of merit, and what educators and schools value to be worth rewarding.

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This book presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the educational governance reform trajectory and the latest issues in China, addressing several important topics such as administration, internal management, provision, enrollment, employment, financing, examinations, evaluation and quality assurance.

How do you know if students are with you at the beginning, middle, and end of a lesson?

With this user-friendly resource, teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments.