Education: examinations and assessment

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education.

Christoph Fuhrmann analysiert und erprobt die Anwendung des trigonometrischen Modells, eines neuen Item-Response-Modells.

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades.

Measurement Theory in Action, Third Edition, helps readers apply testing and measurement theories and features 22 self-contained modules which instructors can match to their courses.

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.

Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis.

This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational  research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings.

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars.

This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points.

The focus on smart education has become a new trend in the global educational field.

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining.

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.

Over my nearly forty years of teaching and conducting research in the ?

Validity is a clear, substantive introduction to the two most fundamental aspects of defensible testing practice: understanding test score meaning and justifying test score use.

Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance.

This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test and for quantifying its characteristics.

Issues of access, social exclusion and widening participation dominate educational policy agendas and are a shared global challenge.

In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.

This book describes the use of data systems in early childhood settings (birth to eight years) for the purposes of assessment, evaluation and curriculum planning.

School Reform in an Era of Standardization explores how teachers and school-based administrators navigate the processes of accountability and standardization in schooling systems and settings.

This textbook brings together findings from global research on teaching and learning, with an emphasis on secondary and higher education.

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This valuable resource helps institutional leaders understand and implement a data strategy at their college or university that maximizes benefits to all creators and users of data.

The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s.

Covering both higher education and school education, this book contributes to the field of assessment by providing a systematic account of student self-assessment based on a consistent conceptualisation.

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

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

Dyslexia in Adolescence: Global Perspectives presents international case studies on the psychosocial development and academic progress of adolescents with dyslexia to enhance understanding of adjustment factors, outcomes and support.

High-stakes educational testing is a global phenomenon which is increasing in both scale and importance.

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century.

Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools.

School Reform in an Era of Standardization explores how teachers and school-based administrators navigate the processes of accountability and standardization in schooling systems and settings.

Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to ';What did students learn, and how well?

This volume provides an analysis of what we know about turning around "e;failing"e; schools in the United States.

The purpose of this book is to improve the direction and utility of the evaluation by program directors in charge, and the implementation of the evaluation by the evaluator.

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning.

Responding to both the trend towards increasing online enrollments as the demand for face-to-face education declines, and to the immediate surge in remote learning owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides vital guidance to higher education institutions on how to develop faculty capacity to teach online and to leverage the affordances of an ever-increasing array of new and emerging learning technologies.

The Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines meaningfully addresses current developments in the field, offering a unique and timely focus on domain dependency.

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.

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.

As a teacher, what you want most is for your students to learn-to immerse themselves in rich and challenging content and leave your classroom better prepared for school and life.

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Learn the 7 steps to earn a 36 on the ACT-- written by a student who achieved a perfect score!

A Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation publicationEducation is one of the largest sectors of the U.

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

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.