Education: examinations and assessment

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

My interest in and appreciation for program evaluation began in the early 1970's when conducting a curriculum development research project at the University of Florida's P.

This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model - the 3A Methodology - for assessing the quality of school education.

When playing video games, players are able to press the reset button when something goes wrong and realize they are missing an essential skill needed to win the game.

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

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight.

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

This must-read book for all literacy educators illuminates the intersection of research on literacy instruction and teacher evaluation.

Die COVID-Pandemie bewirkt einen starken Digitalisierungsschub der Hochschullehre, der die Interaktionen von Studierenden und Lehrenden nachhaltig beeinflusst und zu einer steigenden Vielfalt von Lehr- und Lernmethoden führt.

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Rubrics offer concrete artefacts of what schools evaluate to be of merit, and what educators and schools value to be worth rewarding.

Outdoor Learning in Higher Education is essential reading for educational developers and academic teachers of all disciplines interested in the theory behind, and benefits of, learning outdoors.

This book examines how e-assessment can be implemented in primary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in an examination-oriented context.

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Investigating School Psychology provides a fascinating exploration of the field of school psychology through the lens of pseudoscience and fringe science.

This book provides teachers, instructors, scholars, and administrators with a practical guide to implement portfolio assessment of writing in their work contexts.

When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools.

The ultimate preparation guide for the unique CEH exam.

This textbook addresses the main assessment issues that teachers and educational institutions face in their daily work, while providing practical tools to support actions and decisions in this area.

This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with guidance on how to construct them, use them to align course content to learning outcomes, and apply them in a wide variety of courses, and to all forms of assignment.

The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments.

Whether resulting from the educational fallout of the COVID-19 global pandemic or merely challenging the status quo, more schools are transitioning their grading practices away from traditional points and percentages and toward 21st century grading practices such as standards-based and proficiency-based grading.

As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level.

Mark Paige takes an in-depth look at the interaction of Value Added Models (VAMs) and the law of teacher evaluation.

Educational systems around the world look to student assessment programs as they initiate reforms and revise educational policies to increase student achievement.

Offering a contemporary overview of how visual art teachers assess learning in their classrooms, this book provides an outline of the role of assessment in reporting not only student achievement but also how student assessment ties to the intrinsic and external assessments of teacher performance.

The dramatic shift in the American labor market away from manufacturing and the growing gap in earnings between high school and college graduates have contributed to a sense of alarm about the capacity of the nation's schools to supply adequately skilled graduates to the work force.

Written by teachers and teacher educators, this book presents practice-focused ideas and provocative questions to help teachers plan for inclusive curriculum and assessment within key learning areas in school education.

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.

As the demand for English language education grows in Asia, there has been a parallel growth in the development and implementation of standardized tests at the local level.

This lively, concise and to-the-point guide offers hints and practical sugestions to help you develop good exam-preparation skills and build your confidence, so that you can get results that do justice to the work you've put in.

This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

In 1972 a monograph by Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda, and Rajaratnam was published entitled The Dependability of Behavioral Measurements.

This book investigates the education and assessment of student midwives in clinical practice, paying particular attention to how their practice is graded.

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The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language development?

Demystifying Scholarly Metrics gives librarians and faculty the confidence to navigate the maze of scholarly metrics, identify quality journals in which to publish, and measure the impact of scholarly works.

Assessment 101 is your all-in-one guide to conducting and facilitating assessment in specific programs, as well as coordinating institution-wide assessment processes.

'This is a timely book that effectively challenges the current emphasis on a homogeneous approach to teaching, learning, and assessment in early literacy.

Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance.

Tim Fütterer untersucht den Einfluss von Lernumgebungen auf die Qualität einer Portfolioarbeit in der Lehrkräfteausbildung.

This book provides a variety of strategies for creating, grading, and using assessments in the virtual setting.

More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners.

Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues.

The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present.

This much-needed book offers trainers, consultants, evaluation professionals, and human resource executives and practitioners a hands-on resource for understanding and applying the proven principles of confirmative evaluation.

Formative measurement models are largely unknown in psychology and education, whereas they are part of the standard repertoire in economics.

Updated to align with the American Psychological Association and the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education accreditation requirements.