This book serves as an essential intervention where the innovative, evidence based and contemporary teaching, learning approaches, strategies and learning support systems to be incorporated in the learning process are presented, supported with findings.
This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.
This timely book takes stock of the wide range of developments in society, education and assessment and offers conclusions and strategies that are necessary for the future of educational assessment.
This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical perspectives; * includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and * shows the application of these perspectives to school situations, as well as situations involving other kinds of organizations.
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.
Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality.
With an argument for embedding nonverbal delivery in speaking assessment as a point of departure, this book seeks to validate a proposed rating scale for incorporating nonverbal delivery and other conventional dimensions into speaking assessment with a mixed-methods approach.
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international achievement measure that assesses 15-year-old student performance in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies triennially.
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Success in School and Career: Common Core Standards in Language Arts K5 provides kindergarten through grade-five educators and school and district administrators with historical perspectives that shaped the Common Core State Standards.
Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.
Auf der Basis psychologischer Forschungsarbeiten, die Aufgaben durch ihren Anfangs- und Zielzustand sowie die Operationen zur Lösung charakterisieren, untersucht Matthias C.
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.
First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors' considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during the evaluation process, particularly that of the responsive or democratic type.
This book is one of the first to attempt a systematic in-depth analysis of assessment in mathematics education in most of its important aspects: it deals with assessment in mathematics education from historical, psychological, sociological, epistmological, ideological, and political perspectives.
Psychoeducational Assessment of Preschool Children, Fifth Edition, provides academics and school-based practitioners such as psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers with an up-to-date guide to the assessment of young children.
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The Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of human, cultural, historical, and societal influences upon assessment practices, policies, and statistical modeling.
Die vorliegende Studie bildet eine systematische Auseinandersetzung mit der schulinternen Leistungsbeurteilung anhand von vorgegebenen Erwartungshorizonten im Kontext der zentralen Prüfungen zum Erwerb des Mittleren Schulabschlusses und greift hiermit ein gesellschaftlich stark relevantes Thema auf, welches bislang unerforscht blieb.
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.
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.
This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- in particular, constructed response, performance testing, and portfolio assessment.
Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence.
This book provides an overview of current research on the development of reading skills as well as practices to assist educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and intervention for students with reading difficulties.
