Education: examinations and assessment

Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national assessments.

Using an external examiner in an institution is not a new phenomenon.

Student evaluation is one of the most important processes in the learning practice of schools, which constitutes a vital part of education.

An examination and analysis of history education in American colleges and universities In 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.

In response to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Systems for State Science Assessment explores the ideas andtools that are needed to assess science learning at the state level.

Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching seriesShift to a new paradigm of classroom assessment that is more accurate, meaningful, and authentic.

This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors' and students' conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision.

This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden.

DIPLOMA MATTERS In our current education system too many high school students wind up with too few choices.

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This practical guide to the intellectual assessment of children and adolescents in schools is widely used, both by practicing school psychologists and by instructors and students in graduate school psychology programs.

First published in 1992.

Published with Kappa Delta Pi, Creativity and Education in China takes readers on a journey through research-supported ideas and practical examples of creative and innovative schooling within a changing regime.

International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally.

This book provides a detailed account of the origin, development, administration, revision and subsequent research findings on the benchmarking initiative from 1996-2016.

This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach.

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

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars.

Volume 14, Number 1, 2002.

This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective.

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones.

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An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate these abilities.

This book offers an overview of five categories of alternative assessments used by established and emerging faculty throughout Malaysian institutions of higher education, namely peer and self-assessment, group-based assessment, performance-based assessment, portfolio, and technology-based assessment.

Why do some students struggle to understand and retain information, while other students don't?

Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning.

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students, either separately or in combination, as the health crisis was viewed as a factor intersecting with and exacerbating existing racial inequities in educational systems.

Teaching remains an incredibly demanding and often 'downtrodden' profession but being a teacher can be a fabulous and rewarding job.

Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities.

In the seventies, countries lauded American education as one of the best systems in the world.

Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core provides school leaders, teachers, and others with strategies and best practices for advancing adolescent literacy in the classroom.

This book analyses the global diffusion of key competencies-based education (CBE) as a "e;global education policy"e; (GEP), focusing on China's process of adoption and adaptation.

In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of teaching, learning, and testing U.

This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education.

The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education.

Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts.

Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to large organizations today.

Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores.

This volume explores the rapidly advancing field of technology-supported knowledge assessment.

Cases of Teachers' Data Use addresses applications of student data beyond theoretical, school-, and district-level examinations by presenting case studies of teachers' data use in practice.

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

This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa.

Presenting original studies and rich conceptual analyses, this volume reports on theoretical issues involved in the use of simulations and games in educational assessment.

Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice.

Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams offers practical, empirically sourced insights into the high-stakes licensure exams required in most states for teacher certification.

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This book details a unique training evaluation approach developed by David J.