Education: examinations and assessment

This volume documents on-going research and theorising in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children's and adolescent's personality and behavior.

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 addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives.

This book explores how peer reviews are used in school improvement, accountability and education system reform.

This book examines very important issues in research evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.

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

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

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.

This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens.

This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words.

This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure.

This book addresses issues related to ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and pays special attention to ethical concerns and experiences that have arisen from engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work.

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

This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement.

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).

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

This book discusses instruction, learning, and assessment in higher education with an emphasis on several effective formative assessment tools and methods such as digital badges, reflective journals, and peer assessment used in learning environments comprising students of diverse, multicultural backgrounds.

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This edited volume-the first book devoted to the topic of contract cheating-brings together the perspectives of leading scholars presenting novel research.

This book consists of introduction to academic achievement assessment, international comparison of academic achievement assessment and reference, as well as theoretical system and practice strategy of academic achievement assessment.

Die COVID-Pandemie bewirkt einen starken Digitalisierungsschub der Hochschullehre, der die Interaktionen von Studierenden und Lehrenden nachhaltig beeinflusst und zu einer steigenden Vielfalt von Lehr- und Lernmethoden führt.

Katharina Agostini untersucht in dieser qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Studie die Bedeutsamkeit von Wertorientierungen und organisationalen Werten für das Alltagshandeln von Akteuren und Akteurinnen eines öffentlich-rechtlichen Finanzdienstleistungsunternehmens.

This book is a report on the academic achievement assessment of Grade-6 students in primary school with a large-scale sample for the first time since the new curriculum reform.

Aus einer sportdidaktischen Perspektive geht Katja Schönfeld der Frage nach, wie sich kognitive Aktivität von Schülerinnen und Schülern im Sportunterricht charakterisiert.

Formative Messmodelle sind in der Psychologie und Erziehungswissenschaft weitgehend unbekannt, wohingegen sie in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften zum Standardrepertoire gehören.

This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers' assessment competence.

This volume considers the role of initial and continuing teacher education in uncertain times.

Assessment of student learning outcomes (ASLO) is one of the key activities in teaching and learning.

A critical issue in higher education is the effective implementation of assessment with the core purpose of promoting productive student learning.

This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs.

This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach.

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.

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.

The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education.

To overcome the problem, present series of handbooks on every subject has been prepared.

This book gathers original studies presented at the PROMS 2016 conference on Rasch theories and Rasch-based applications.

This comparative study provides an overview of the textbook production chain, starting with its origins in the curriculum, and suggests ways in which policymakers can make improvements at every point in the chain.

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

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.

This book combines insights from language assessment literacy and critical language testing through critical analyses and research about challenges in language assessment around the world.