Education: examinations and assessment

Standardisierte Bildungs- und Berufsverläufe verlieren angesichts der raschen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen an Bedeutung.

Meet calls for increased quality and understand accreditation expectations Author Linda Suskie is internationally recognized for her work in higher education assessment, and she is a former vice president of a major regional accreditor.

This impactful guide takes you through the process of effective reflective practice with a clear and creative focus on helping you be successful in your professional and academic life.

Why are children from disadvantaged and minority communities overrepresented among academic underachievers, poor learners, and school dropouts?

With age-appropriate, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sound teaching practices, middle school science can capture the interest and energy of adolescent students and expand their understanding of the world around them.

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

While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist.

This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education.

School Reform in an Era of Standardization explores how teachers and school-based administrators navigate the processes of accountability and standardization in schooling systems and settings.

Evaluation Models is an up-to-date revision of the classic text first published in 1983.

This book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning.

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Collins Cambridge IGCSETM Biology provides complete coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSE Biology syllabus (0610/0970) for examination from 2023 and is packed full of questions, in depth content, practical investigative skills features and more.

This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education.

Is the accreditation system "e;broken"e; as claimed by successive Secretaries of Education and some recent reports?

In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M.

How can every teacher, school, and district improve the quality of their schools?

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Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume II: Advanced Methods demonstrates advanced quantitative techniques for language assessment.

The need for a comprehensive volume that reviews both the processes and issues involved in developing, administering, and validating large-scale assessment programs has never been greater.

Tough Test Questions?

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

Second EditionThis book introduces the reader to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review, and illustrates how to implement a sustainable outcomes-based assessment program review process based on over 30 case studies of exemplary practice across a range of institutional types.

Reflecting the internationalization of the field of second language writing, this book focuses on political aspects and pedagogical issues of writing instruction and testing in a global context.

Reignite the passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning.

Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems.

This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning.

N3xt Practices is a ground-breaking advisory book for education decision makers.

In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning.

This book delves into extensive research regarding the identification and characterization of academic literacies constructs, encompassing academic literacy, quantitative literacy, mathematics comprehension, and reasoning skills, with a specific focus on their relevance within South African educational contexts.

This book presents research on emotion work and the emotional labour of teaching and learning based in England's further education sector, where an increasing emphasis on marketised systems means accountability and audit cultures have become embedded within everyday teaching practice.

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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) are at the forefront of transforming various industries, and education is no exception.

This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education.

Contextualising why assessment is still the single most important factor affecting student learning in higher education, this second edition of Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners offers a critical discourse about the value of assessment for learning alongside practical suggestions about how to enhance the student experience of assessment and feedback.

This book provides another perspective to the way educators think about and use educational technologies in secondary and tertiary classrooms.

New technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular.

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

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

Kompetenzorientierung ist inzwischen in den Schulen angekommen.

The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction.

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

First-Generation College Student Research Studies brings together research from a group of dynamic scholars from a variety of institutions across the United States.

This volume brings together leading researchers in a major new effort to bridge the historical gap between the domains of ability and personality.

Indispensable for anyone involved in vocational education or apprenticeships, The Vocational Assessor Handbook is the only comprehensive guide for assessors and verifiers of vocational qualifications.

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