Education: examinations and assessment

This book adopts a multi-method and multi-phase approach to investigate the washback effects of Test for English Majors (TEM) on program administrators, teachers and students, shedding new light on TEM reform and the reform of English teaching and learning in China.

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

This book discusses the interwoven themes of teacher learning and classroom assessment, highlighting the complexity and intricacy of these processes in a range of very different classroom contexts.

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

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

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.

This book provides a detailed account of the origin, development, administration, revision and subsequent research findings on the benchmarking initiative from 1996-2016.

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 explores the effectiveness of listen-to-summarize tasks as a tool to assess lecture comprehension ability.

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.

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 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 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.

The book provides an overview of developments in the field of entrepreneurship education, with special reference to global perspectives on innovations and best practices, as well as research in the emerging economy context.

This book is a valuable read for a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who analyze assessment data and construct test instruments.

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

This book presents research on emotion work and the emotional labour of teaching and learning based in England's further education sector, where an increasing emphasis on marketised systems means accountability and audit cultures have become embedded within everyday teaching practice.

In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning.

This book introduces a comprehensive RTP Model that reframes research to practice knowledge and inclusive education philosophy to promote the sustained use of research to promote and enhance meaningful education for all students.

This book shares the goal of the classic text How to Lie with Statistics, namely, preventing and correcting statistical misconceptions that are common among practitioners, though its focus is on the educational context.

These conference proceedings focus on "e;Assessment for Learning: Within and Beyond the Classroom"e; in recognition of the power of assessment for learning as a way of boosting student performance.

This book discusses Hong Kong's use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations.

With an argument for embedding nonverbal delivery in speaking assessment as a point of departure, this book seeks to validate a proposed rating scale for incorporating nonverbal delivery and other conventional dimensions into speaking assessment with a mixed-methods approach.

Academic standards in higher education are important but largely misunderstood.

Este libro presenta un análisis de la relación entre el precio de la renta de la propiedad y las variables ambientales, con la técnica de precios hedónicos, para determinar cómo la calidad ambiental influencia la selección de localización de la propiedad en una ciudad.

Teniendo en cuenta que no existe pedagogía científica sin tener en cuenta el funcionamiento del cerebro humano, pensamos que es necesario construir la pedagogía del cerebro, o sea, la Neuropedagogía y la Neurodidáctica, en el sentido de que las estrategias pedagógicas, didácticas, curriculares y evaluativas deben estar encaminadas a conformar las configuraciones cerebrales y deben contribuir a estimular la creación de nuevas redes y circuitos de comunicación neuronal, que permitan orientar la formación de los niños y niñas basándonos en los avances de las neurociencias.

Los supuestos reflexivos y críticos de este texto apuntan a trabajar por procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, reconocer la diversidad de los estudiantes y emplear nuevas prácticas pedagógicas en el aula universitaria.

Los supuestos reflexivos y críticos de este texto apuntan a trabajar por procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, reconocer la diversidad de los estudiantes y emplear nuevas prácticas pedagógicas en el aula universitaria.

Un manual 100% actualizado con lo que los docentes necesitan saber sobre la evaluación en el aula, escrito por dos especialistas con amplísima experiencia.

Un manual 100% actualizado con lo que los docentes necesitan saber sobre secuencias didácticas, escrito por María Beatriz Taboada, especialista con amplísima experiencia como docente hasta nivel de posgrado.

It was the belief that assessment is the driving force of curriculum that motivated the authors of this monograph to embark on a program of research and development into the use of digital technologies to support more authentic forms of assessment.

This book focuses on the delivery of public examinations offered by the main examining boards in England since Victorian England.

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills.

This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life.

Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders is an up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the classification of such disparate disorders as reading, spelling, writing, and language disorders.

In the decade of the 1970s, item response theory became the dominant topic for study by measurement specialists.

The present book, Cases of Assessment in Mathematics Education, is one of two studies resulting from an ICMI Study Conference on Assessment in Mathematics Education and Its Effects.

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.

In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators.

My interest in and appreciation for program evaluation began in the early 1970's when conducting a curriculum development research project at the University of Florida's P.

What goals should be addressed by educational programs?

In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry.

During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by national, state, and local agencies.

Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance evaluation.

Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.