Education: examinations and assessment

This book provides school principals and those responsible for pedagogical supervision the necessary tools for their professional development, whether in formal (continuing education) or informal (self-taught) contexts.

Action Research, the definitive destination.

Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments.

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

This book investigates the issue of cloze-validity as a measure of second language reading comprehension.

A good decade after the temporary end of attempts to make driving simulation into an accepted, productive teaching and training technology, new possibilities and chances are on the horizon, motivated by current EU legislation.

The media now regularly feature breakthroughs on the influence of prenatal hormones on the brain and behavior, for instance the link to financial performance or risk management.

This book, based on detailed studies of eight innovations in mathematics and science education, has many insights to offer on current school reform.

To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace.

Now is the time to reimagine assessment and throw out traditional gradesInternationally-recognized grading and assessment expert Starr Sackstein is back with the long-awaited update to her highly-regarded guide to throwing out grades, even in a traditional grades school.

French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, "e;a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.

This revised edition of Keeping Us Engaged centers on in-classroom instruction, offering fresh student perspectives on how faculty can maximize engagement when teaching in person.

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

The HOPE Teacher Rating Scale is designed to help guide teachers in identifying gifted students for programming.

This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory.

Thomas Kellaghan Educational Research Centre, St.

This book is a detailed manual for the implementation of competence diagnostics in the field of vocational training.

This book describes culturally responsive data literacy (CRDL), which merges data literacy and culturally responsive practices to help educators assume a whole child perspective, an asset model, and an equity lens to the use of data.

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.

Assessment in Higher Education brings together in one place most of the major issues confronting higher education in the 1990s.

As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused.

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.

As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused.

Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district.

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

Comprised of contributions from distinguished education scholars, Teachers, Teaching, and Reform takes a critical look at evidence about systemic efforts to identify excellent teachers and promote excellent teaching practices.

There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.

Originally published in 1968, at a time when the current public examination systems were coming under close scrutiny this volume discusses completely and fully the merits and demerits of various methods of educational measurement, starting with the theories from which they evolved and going on to observe their efficacy in practice.

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.

Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research.

The one and only bestselling official guide to the TOEFL, from the makers of the test!

Now in its Fifth Edition, this text applies current theory to classroom practice by providing, in each chapter, a brief explanation of major concepts followed by guided practical experience in administering, scoring, and interpreting reading assessment techniques.

This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies.

Contextualising why assessment is still the single most important factor affecting student learning in higher education, this second edition of Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners offers a critical discourse about the value of assessment for learning alongside practical suggestions about how to enhance the student experience of assessment and feedback.

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Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling.

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While there is consensus that institutions need to represent their educational effectiveness through documentation of student learning, the higher education community is divided between those who support national standardized tests to compare institutions' educational effectiveness, and those who believe that valid assessment of student achievement is based on assessing the work that students produce along and at the end of their educational journeys.

This book introduces the reader to the main quantitative concepts, methods, and computational techniques needed for the development, evaluation, and application of tests in the behavioral/social sciences, including educational tests.

Bernard R.

The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction.

This book serves as an up-to-date Rorschach primer and elaborates on the various applications of Rorschach assessment for adolescents with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and therapeutic assessment.

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.

This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature.

In Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed, Hugh B.

This insightful text offers a detailed account of the historical development of educational accountability in the US public education system.