Education: examinations and assessment

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This book outlines the key problems associated with the intersections of assessment, learning and teaching, and presents guiding principles to effective assessment that schools can follow in order to optimise student outcomes.

Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system?

This book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education.

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

Introduction to Theory-Driven Program Evaluation provides a clear guide for practicing evaluation science, and numerous examples of how these evaluations actually unfold in contemporary practice.

Educational Measurement has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951.

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Your students may recognize words like determine, analyze, and distinguish, but do they understand these words well enough to quickly and completely answer a standardized test question?

This book describes all of the important factors that cause some students to have low reading achievement and others to have high reading achievement.

This edited book brings together fifteen original empirical studies from a variety of international contexts to provide a detailed exploration of language assessment, testing and evaluation.

The editors of this volume suggest that there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based.

What do the professional standards mean for teachers and school leaders?

Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable public interest, particularly when it is associated with 'high stakes' outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment.

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Create a more effective system for evaluating online faculty Evaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administrators need.

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

Intentional teaching begins with focused observations and systematic documentation of children's learning and development.

To overcome the problem, present series of handbooks on every subject has been prepared.

This book aims to isolate specific success factors for underrepresented minorities in undergraduate engineering programs.

In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M.

Although computer-based tests (CBT) have been administered for many years, improvements in the speed and power of computers coupled with reductions in their cost have made large-scale computer delivery of tests increasingly feasible.

Since test items are the building blocks of any test, learning how to develop and validate test items has always been critical to the teaching-learning process.

How do teachers assess the ordinary classroom work of young children?

How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken?

This step-by-step guide is written for R and latent variable model (LVM) novices.

When designed in ways that inspire and motivate, assessment is a gift to our students.

This contributed volume is an exciting product of the 22nd MAVI conference, which presents cutting-edge research on affective issues in teaching and learning math.

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

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills.

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

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and language testing: shared ground where researchers seek to measure second language performance to better understand how people learn their second languages.

Since passage of the of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, academic researchers, econometricians, and statisticians have been exploring various analytical methods of documenting students' academic progress over time.

English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time.

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.

How can assessment and evaluation policies work together more effectively to improve student outcomes in primary and secondary schools?

This book seeks to critically examine the impacts of 'grand designs' in public policy through a detailed historical analysis of Australian schooling reforms since the 'education revolution' agenda was introduced by the federal government in the late 2000s.

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

English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time.

This edition of the focused and comprehensive text written for TAQA learners and all trainee assessors and quality assurers is another essential support text from bestselling author Ann Gravells.

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

Academic standards in higher education are important but largely misunderstood.

For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed.

Allan Hedberg has been in private practice as a psychologist for over 30 years.

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

Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture.

Originally published in 1972, there were many 'classics' dealing with assessment and testing on the market at the time, but most of these left the inexperienced reader bewildered in the early stages, because of their size and insufficient explanation of the many technical terms used.

This book discusses the interwoven themes of teacher learning and classroom assessment, highlighting the complexity and intricacy of these processes in a range of very different classroom contexts.