Education: examinations and assessment

While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies over and above ethical principles on the education of society's most vulnerable, our children.

New technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular.

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

The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates.

Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life.

This timely collection explores the role of digital technology in language education and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Drawing on insights from across Africa, this book investigates the discourses and practices that guide doctoral training today.

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable.

A must-read for every teacher in the 21st century, this book provides a comprehensive guide to facilitating joyful, sustainable, holistic, multidisciplinary, and active 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 unexplored dimensions in the teacher education sector in India.

In this comprehensive resource for elementary school teachers, Kristina J.

This thought-provoking book explores the 'whats,' 'whys,' and 'hows' of integrating feminist theory and methods into applied research and evaluation practice.

Leveraging Socio-Emotional Assessment to Foster Children's Human Rights focuses on teaching and assessing students' social and emotional attributes within the broader context of children's rights.

Maximize learning by making grades more meaningful and motivating to students.

Action Research, the definitive destination.

The affective realm is a critical, but often forgotten, aspect of schooling.

All teachers are responsible for assessing the children they teach and the outcomes of any assessment are important for individual learners and the wider school.

This book showcases how an evidence-based design approach can be utilized in the planning of learning environments, by acknowledging the interconnectedness of research, practice, and theory as core considerations in the design of learning environments.

This book brings together contributions from different scholarly contexts that address a diverse range of focused topics, as well as empirical and conceptual perspectives, on research with international studies.

Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights from art teachers in Canada and Europe, this edited volume explores the question of how learning in the arts can be effectively and fairly assessed in the context of higher education.

smarTEST Prep: Guide to LSAT Logic Games presents a standardized and methodical approach to conquering the Logic Games section of the LSAT.

This comprehensive review includes over 1,000 questions with detailed explanations, subspecialty lists and updated references.

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

This step-by-step guide is written for R and latent variable model (LVM) novices.

This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment.

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Trust and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Education: Where Human Learning Meets Learning Machines is a resource for researchers and practitioners in a field where the mainstreaming of AI technologies, and their increased capacities for deception, have produced confusion and fear.

There has been an increase in awareness (and perhaps occurrence) of individual and organized cheating on tests.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

This book examines student achievement in global tests in Middle Eastern countries.

Includes all the core curriculum topics, this physics ebook for kids 12+ is the perfect support for home and school learning.

'This is a very exciting book and should be read widely by anyone who wants a better understanding of the role of assessment in the diverse, globalised, digital societies of the 21st century.

This book is a useful guide for the teaching fraternity, administrators and education technology professionals to make good use of AI across outcome-based technical education (OBTE) ecosystem and infuse innovations and affordable digital technologies to traditional pedagogic processes to make teaching-learning more independent of human factor (teacher/student quality), time and place and at the same time more impactful and enjoyable for the learners.

Many educators agree that the 100-point grading model is not always a reliable way to evaluate student learning.

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

At a time when American urban public education is under broad attack, and in which America is perceived as a nationat risk that is losing the race to the top, educators and politicians from across the spectrum are promoting increased emphasis on standardized testing, business models of school reform, zero tolerance, no excuses, promoting cultural assimilation, and building a standardized curriculum.

A comprehensive expansion to the essential higher education assessment text This second edition of Assessment Essentials updates the bestselling first edition, the go-to resource on outcomes assessment in higher education.

Teachers stand at the intersection of educational goals, directing students down the road to success or to the byways of diminished opportunities.

Part of The Essential SENCO Toolkit series, this invaluable resource offers practical ideas and materials to allow SENCOs and SEN practitioners to capture learning, demonstrate the impact of SEN support, and analyse whether provision is effectively tackling barriers to learning.

Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other.

Higher education institutions have experienced a sharp increase in demand for accountability.

STUDENT TESTED AND APPROVED!

This contributed volume focuses on understanding the educational strengths and weaknesses of mediated content (including media as a learning supplement), in comparison to traditional face-to-face learning.

There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.