Education: examinations and assessment

This book is one of the first to attempt a systematic in-depth analysis of assessment in mathematics education in most of its important aspects: it deals with assessment in mathematics education from historical, psychological, sociological, epistmological, ideological, and political perspectives.

Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting.

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This book highlights the kinds of information that assessments offer, with examples of some of the best mathematics assessments worldwide.

This book investigates the issue of cloze-validity as a measure of second language reading comprehension.

There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs.

This book draws on detailed case studies from three very different countries and school systems to explore the early adolescent learner and the middle years of learning, both of which are often overlooked in the literature.

Why is assessment so important in the teaching-learning process?

Managing processes is not just one of the keys to educational improvement, but the key.

The Second Edition of 30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher provides practical, applied information for the novice qualitative researcher, addressing the "e;how"e; of conducting qualitative research in one brief guide.

Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum.

This much-needed book offers trainers, consultants, evaluation professionals, and human resource executives and practitioners a hands-on resource for understanding and applying the proven principles of confirmative evaluation.

The Collins Cambridge IGCSETM ICT Student's Book Third Edition provides in-depth coverage of the IGCSE ICT syllabus (0417/0983) for examination from 2023.

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.

This volume comprises of chapters that deal with language proficiency relating to a wide range of language program issues including curriculum, assessment, learners and instructors, and skill development.

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning.

About the bookThe previous editions of this book were best-sellers and very well received by aspirants of Limited Insolvency Examination and Insolvency Professionals.

From pulling all-nighters to memorizing rote facts, today's students have shown that they have no organized, logical, or sequential understanding of how to study or prepare for tests.

This edited volume explores questions about 'what works', how, for whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across countries and different educational systems.

How should we assess and present information about the quality of research-doctorate programs?

How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken?

In 1972 a monograph by Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda, and Rajaratnam was published entitled The Dependability of Behavioral Measurements.

Student writing has long been viewed as a problem in higher education in the UK.

Assessing media education is a formidable task because both assessment and media education are complex and controversial concepts.

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs.

Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China's teacher education policy since the 1990s.

The chapters in this component of Assessing Media Education are valuable for those who need to know how to develop an assessment plan.

Understanding Instructionally Useful Assessment offers new insights into how various types of assessments, from the state to the classroom, will differ in their usefulness for supporting instructional decision-making and student learning.

It's time to move our assessment practices from the 1950s to the century we're living in.

The second edition of University Teaching in Focus distils the knowledge and insights of internationally acclaimed experts in university teaching.

2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice ReviewKumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide transformative educational experiences to teachers and their students?

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families.

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.

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

This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments.

This book presents a searing critique of the global take on education, questioning why the idea that education should be international has come to dominate the field and positing that the discourse of internationalisation has altered the way we conceptualise education.

This book presents evidence-based practices for appropriate assessment of and school-based services for young English language learners.

This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions.

Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically.

Training people is an art-form - the fusion of skills acquired through learning (to train effectively), understanding people (behavior, culture) and methodology (content, environment) through which knowledge is transferred to another human being.

Activity-based series, exam preparation skills, mapped to specification, developed with teachers, first teach September 2022.

This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need.

In today's climate of accountability and high-stakes testing, many U.

Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide.

This book introduces Q methodology, a method developed nearly a century ago and now recognized as a comprehensive approach for studying subjectivity in the human sciences.

Assessment is messy.

Despite feedback's demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply.