Education: examinations and assessment

The dramatic shift in the American labor market away from manufacturing and the growing gap in earnings between high school and college graduates have contributed to a sense of alarm about the capacity of the nation's schools to supply adequately skilled graduates to the work force.

Cases of Teachers' Data Use addresses applications of student data beyond theoretical, school-, and district-level examinations by presenting case studies of teachers' data use in practice.

In this volume prominent scholars from both psychology and education describe how these new rules of measurement work and how they differ from the old rules.

This volume reconsiders the problem of context in language testing and other modes of assessment from the perspective of transdisciplinarity.

Understanding assessment and being able to use it effectively is at the heart of successful primary teaching.

Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education.

A critical issue in research and development (R&D) management is the structure and use of evaluative efforts for R&D programs.

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology.

This book provides ways of thinking for preservice and new teachers to transition from the theory behind curricular design to engaged teaching and learning in the classroom.

This edition of the focused and comprehensive text written for TAQA learners and all trainee assessors and quality assurers is another essential support text from bestselling author Ann Gravells.

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels.

This book is about the current state of research in online assessment.

Effective evaluation of a pupil's performance and of resources available is a vital part of successful teaching.

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

Bernard R.

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

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

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

This special issue is based on a workshop which began with a description and examination of the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) standard-setting model, then looked to standard-setting applications outside of education.

This book showcases a range of professional development activities in English medium instruction (EMI) from diverse international contexts.

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.

This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples.

Allan Hedberg has been in private practice as a psychologist for over 30 years.

Being wrong is an integral part of the assessment process, and understanding how to learn from those mistakes, errors, and misconceptions helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience.

This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated.

Leistungsmessung, Bewertung und Prüfungsformate im WandelKlausuren, Hausarbeiten und Abfragen: Tradierte Prüfungsformate fokussieren vor allem Faktenwissen.

How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite.

Katrin Bölsterli Bardy erstellt in der ersten von drei Teilstudien erstmalig empirisch basierte Standards für kompetenzorientierte Schulbücher der Naturwissenschaften.

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.

What is the outlook for educational reform in the United States?

What is a rubric?

The clock is ticking and before you know, it will be September!

Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in higher education.

Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press.

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume.

Organized around the four key areas outlined in the U.

Around the globe, various kinds of testing, including high stakes national census testing, have become meta-policies, steering educational systems in particular directions, and having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula.

High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students.

"e;The Role of Assessment in Schools"e; looks at the conceptual aspects of tests and testing and also gives practical guidelines on how to use tests to their best effect.

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 explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in educational assessment, catering to researchers, educators, administrators, policymakers, and technologists involved in shaping the future of education.

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

This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter.

This book makes the case for a revival in interest in the viva.

The highly-anticipated second edition of the Foundations of Mixed Methods Research:Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences gives students a comprehensive overview of mixed methods from philosophical roots and traditions through designing, conducting, and disseminating a study.