Education: examinations and assessment

Validity is the hallmark of quality for educational and psychological measurement.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

The College Classroom Assessment Compendium provides new and seasoned instructors with comprehensive strategies, perspectives, and solutions for the daily challenges and issues involved in student assessment.

The second edition of Effective Grading the book that has become a classic in the field provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading.

After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of assignments, 'success' for university students can often be represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range of activities.

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.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept.

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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 book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.

Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other.

This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.

Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model.

The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater.

This volume is a collection of information about the concerns and problems of the beginning social scientist in the academic and nonacademic world.

This book examines the mathematics achievement of immigrant students on the basis of data from the IEA Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

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This book addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives.

Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern among many educational policy makers, assessment specialists, and classroom teachers over questions of access and fairness, particularly for learners from culturally different backgrounds and those with a history of academic struggles.

Multimodal Signs of Learning proposes a methodology to uncover evidence of learning in students' multimodal compositions.

This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization.

Why is assessment so important in the teaching-learning process?

Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools.

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

Vera Bastian untersucht den Personalauswahlprozess und entsprechende Kriterien in Einrichtungen der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe.

How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom?

Designed as a handbook, this text provides media, speech (public speaking, interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication), and theatre educators with both the theoretical and practical ammunition to fight the assessment battles on their campuses.

Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content.

All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning?

First Published in 1985, Examinations presents a balanced overview and commentary on all the main aspects of public examinations.

Nationally known science educator Page Keeley-principal author of the hugely popular, four-volume NSTA Press series Uncovering Students Ideas in Science-has teamed up with physicist and science educator Rand Harrington to write this first volume in their new series on physical science.

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?

Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom.

The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement.

Digital analytics is an emerging new trend used in education to measure, collect, analyze, and report on data about learners and their contexts and to understand and optimize learning and learning environments.

Generally recognized as the standard work in its field, Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a comprehensive guide for conducting conceptually sound, culturally responsive, and ecologically oriented assessments of students' social and emotional behavior.

This book is an evidence-based, practical guide to enable pre- and in-service teachers, system, school, and middle leaders to maximise students' understanding of classroom teaching and assessment, improving outcomes and expanding opportunities for all students.

This book describes the Nyae Nyae Village Schools, an innovative and unique mother-tongue education initiative set in north-eastern Namibia.

In The Teacher's Gradebook, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students.

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J.

At a time when the importance of lifelong education is becoming recognised around the world, this is the first book to explore an important but hitherto neglected area: adult mathematics education.

This comprehensive manual that covers informational and literary texts will empower teachers to guide their students as they analyze challenging texts.

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This is Volume 18, Issue 1 2005, a Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education looking at the area of Vertically Moderated Standard Setting.

Discover the transformative power of storytelling in assessment and student learning.

Revolutionize the walkthrough to focus on the endgame of teaching: student learning.

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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.