Education: examinations and assessment

This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need.

Lehren und Lernen in der Institution Schule ist untrennbar verknüpft mit den Praktiken pädagogischen Prüfens und Beurteilens.

'An honest, down-to-earth story of one school's journey towards replacing the tyranny of teacher marking with conferencing and feedback.

This book provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal reform agenda of the economic governance of schools.

Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.

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.

In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry.

There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs.

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it.

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.

This book encourages readers to think about and discuss the purpose of education.

To hear politicians talk, one would think the entire purpose of school is to assess children rather than educate them.

The Second Edition of 30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher provides practical, applied information for the novice qualitative researcher, addressing the "e;how"e; of conducting qualitative research in one brief guide.

Amid current efforts to improve mathematics and science education in the United States, people often ask how these subjects are organized and taught in other countries.

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This book brings together policies, practices, and identities pertaining to doctoral publication through an in-depth longitudinal multiple-case study of doctoral students' scholarly publishing endeavors.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics.

Learning Analytics in the Classroom presents a coherent framework for the effective translation of learning analytics research for educational practice to its practical application in different education domains.

This book collects papers on education quality assessment based on AI technology and introduces the latest research direction and progress of AI technology in the field of education and teaching, including classroom teaching quality assessment, online education quality assessment, teaching reflection quality assessment, etc.

Grades are imperfect, shorthand answers to ';What did students learn, and how well?

First Published in 2004.

Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district.

The goal of this book is to foster a basic understanding of factor analytic techniques so that readers can use them in their own research and critically evaluate their use by other researchers.

Assessment is central to ensemble music.

Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment.

This book supports all candidates for Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) as they prepare for the Validation Process.

Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD's educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment).

Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities, personalities, attitudes, dispositions, and values.

It's time to move our assessment practices from the 1950s to the century we're living in.

This book presents a critical analysis of the implementation of the Bologna Process, its achievements and consequences, as well as its failures and lack of convergence problems.

This is the first title in this new series, which is aimed principally at secondary PGCE and BAEd students and school- and HEI-based tutors.

There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years.

The Test Drive deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research.

Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource.

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills.

This practical guide to outcomes-based assessment in student affairs is designed to help readers meet the growing demand for accountability and for demonstrating student learning.

Written with faculty in mind, Assessment by Design is a practical resource that will also be useful to student affairs staff and administrators dedicated to using assessment to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular settings.

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 discusses the issues of equity-based education in India and advocates for providing fair and inclusive system of education.

Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts to include all children in the general school system, thus reducing exclusion.

From EL Education comes a proven approach to student assessment Leaders of Their Own Learning offers a new way of thinking about assessment based on the celebrated work of EL Education schools across the country.

When put to the test, will standards-based reporting remain as "e;fundamentally flawed"e; as once feared, or can next-generation approaches refine the system for the better?

Gender inequalities in education - in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender - have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century.

With the rapid proliferation of distance education and e-learning courses, the need is growing for a comprehensive, professional approach to evaluating their effectiveness.

Designing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide to systematic design processes for learning environments that provide automatic customization of learning and instruction.

This ebook will be very useful for those who lead an EHE program.