Education: examinations and assessment

Presents a comprehensive treatment of issues related to the inception, design, implementation and reporting of large-scale education assessments.

Building from the success of Keeping Us Engaged and dedicated fully to online teaching, this book centers student perspectives on instructional strategies to maximize engagement and increase virtual learning.

This book discusses the merits and potential shortcomings of Hong Kong STEM education from Grade 8 to Grade 12.

For over twenty-five years, Charles C.

What's Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools.

Get the targeted practice you need to excel on the Reasoning Through Language Arts section of the GED test!

To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them.

Assessment in Health Professions Education, second edition, provides a comprehensive guide for educators in the health professions-medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health fields.

Standards for education achievement are under scrutiny throughout the industrial world.

Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning.

Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment.

With this user-friendly resource, teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments.

Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.

Over the last 20 years there have been a large number of technical advances and changes in the field of educational and psychological testing.

This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for the last two decades.

This book adopts a qualitative case study approach to provide the readers with a systematic delineation and interpretation of the implications of the university ranking phenomenon for Taiwan's higher education system.

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

This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries.

This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally - to voice their potentially 'heretical' views on what most urgently needs to be done.

The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 set forth a broad vision of mathematical content and pedagogy for grades K-12 in the United States.

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 Assessing and Improving Student Organization (AISO) program is intended as a guide for leaders of student-led college organizations.

Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place.

'This volume addresses a very timely and important topic, and provides both broad and in-depth coverage of a number of large-scale English tests in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and about the Chinese learner.

This book makes the case for assessment of student learning as a vehicle for equity in higher education.

* Student evaluations of college teachers: perhaps the most contentious issue on campus* This book offers a more balanced approach* Evaluation affects pay, promotion and tenure, so of intense interest to all faculty* Major academic marketing and publicity* Combines original research with Berk's signature wacky humorTo many college professors the words "e;student evaluations"e; trigger mental images of the shower scene from Psycho, with those bloodcurdling screams.

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.

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 looks at the narrowing effects of contemporary modes of teacher and teaching policy and governance.

This book is the first to explore the big question of how assessment can be refreshed and redesigned in an evolving digital landscape.

How can every teacher, school, and district improve the quality of their schools?

Classroom Data Tracking for grade 4 is a 160-page customizable resource that will transform how you track data and set goals in your classroom.

With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning.

Essential review and practice for all subject areas of the GED testThis book covers all four subjects on the test Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA), Social Studies, Science, and Mathematical Reasoning and provides intensive review and practice.

More than 8 million students enrolled in 4-year, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States in 1996.

This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective.

According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms.

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education.

Creativity enhances the quality of our lives, encouraging us to look deeper, search wider, and explore multiple perspectives.

This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, or undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems.

Die Hochschulen haben sich in den letzten Jahren intensiv um die Verbesserung der Qualität der Lehre bemüht.

Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity.

A new approach to training and evaluating world languages online instructorsThe rapid growth in online world language programs in the United States coupled with the widespread implementation of virtual teaching in response to COVID-19 have pushed the field to reconceive instruction.

State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments.

This book uses philosophical analysis to argue that there are tensions associated with using results of high stakes tests to predict students' future potential.

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today's technology-enhanced educational measurement sector.