Education: examinations and assessment

Two of the most interesting conceptual turns in Richard E.

This is an introductory text designed to provide medical teachers with a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts of effective teaching practice.

This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure.

'It also incorporates a wealth of information that most supervisors and examiners only acquire through years of experience.

As teachers are required to integrate an increasing number of assessment practices into the classroom, it is crucial that they have effective routines for organizing and evaluating the generated data.

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

Applied Psychology for Foundation Year: Key Ideas for Foundation Courses introduces students to topical issues and controversies within specific areas of applied psychology, bringing together current theories and studies from a number of areas within applied psychology through a series of interesting and current debates and controversies.

Measurement and Statistics for Teachers deftly combines descriptive statistics and measurement in the classroom into a student-friendly, practical volume.

Margaret Heritage presents a practical guide to formative assessment as a process of ';inquiry and action' essential to twenty-first century learning.

The Mindfulness-Informed Educator moves a growing body of evidence related to the efficacy of mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches to the context of higher education, suggesting ways to foster psychological flexibility within and outside of the classroom.

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.

This special issue was motivated by the move from research to operations for computerized delivery and scoring of complex constructed response items.

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'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.

The History of Educational Measurement collects essays on the most important topics in educational testing, measurement, and psychometrics.

This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs.

Academic assertiveness is an essential capability that is required of students who wish to achieve academic and professional success.

Stephan Pflaum untersucht in einer dreijährigen Panel-Studie systematisch den Nutzen von Mentoring beim Wechsel vom Studium in den Beruf aus Sicht der Mentees und der MentorInnen.

Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

This book examines important advances and offers a realistic image of the state of the art in student learning outcomes assessment in higher education-a field close to the core of nearly every higher education institution.

This collection, now in paperback, explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today.

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

This book is the result of a conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the University of Wisconsin's National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education.

This book brings together a compendium of the collaborative research from eight PhD students and three researchers, addressing an existing problem for teachers of students with additional learning needs in mainstream classes.

Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education.

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

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners.

The rising reliance on testing in American education and for licensure and certification has been accompanied by an escalation in cheating on tests at all levels.

Special education students often learn about the characteristics of disabilities, but can lack an understanding of the relationship between diagnostic assessment and eligibility for special education services.

Learners of all levels receive a plethora of feedback messages on a daily - or even hourly - basis.

This edited volume showcases first-hand accounts of crafting and handling feedback during the peer review process from early career researchers (ECRs), journal editors and experienced reviewers to develop the concept of 'feedback literacy' in academic peer review contexts.

Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world.

By employing the autobiographical method of currere and bifocalization, this book sheds light on the significance of love and the ethics of caregiving as means to transform curriculum studies into a post-reconceptualist and collective endeavor.

This is the second edition of an introductory text that describes the principles of invariant measurement; how invariant measurement can be achieved using Rasch measurement theory; and how to use invariant measurement to solve a variety of measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

This book provides an analysis of how inspection teams evaluate schools - especially how they decide on assigning scores.

This book intends to trace the revival of traditional literary works since the 1980s in China as it is revealed on the revitalized College Entrance Examination (CEE).

This textbook offers a practical approach for designing and implementing assessment for learning in the drama classroom.

In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary basis by states and school districts beginning in spring 1999.

Using Differentiated Classroom Assessment to Enhance Student Learning introduces pre- and in-service teachers to the foundations, data use, and best practices of the DCA framework.

This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file.

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

Aus einer sportdidaktischen Perspektive geht Katja Schönfeld der Frage nach, wie sich kognitive Aktivität von Schülerinnen und Schülern im Sportunterricht charakterisiert.

Many argue that the conventional high school transcript has become irrelevant to today's best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.

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

This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers.