Education: examinations and assessment

This book offers a comprehensive examination of how school leaders can institute detracking in their school with research-based best practices.

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.

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning.

In this book, leading experts in the field examine the current state of assessment practice and scholarship, explore what the future holds for assessment, and offer guidance to help educators meet these new challenges.

For many in international education, assessment can seem daunting and overwhelming, especially given that such efforts need to involve much more than a pre/post survey.

In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise.

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.

Written with busy music majors in mind, The Piano Proficiency Exam Review Book provides an easy-to-understand guide to the Piano Proficiency Exam.

Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system?

There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice.

Assessing media education is a formidable task because both assessment and media education are complex and controversial concepts.

The role played by testing in the nation's public school system has been increasing steadilyand growing more complicatedfor more than 20 years.

Key Concepts in Educational Assessment provides expert definitions and interpretations of common terms within the policy and practice of educational assessment.

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

50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning?

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

There have been many important changes in the participation of women and men in American society over the past quarter-century.

The educational domain provides a platform for social mobility and social change.

In response to the emerging need to develop teachers as professionals who evaluate their own work, this book presents the foundations of self-evaluation as well as self-evaluation models and tools that are likely to help educational practitioners to evaluate their own teaching, and thus raise the level of their professional functioning.

Since its introduction over 50 years ago, the A-level has been a constant subject of debate in schools, HE and government.

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.

What if educational programs designed curriculum with the end in mind, teaching and assessing only the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the workplace and broader life applications?

High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students.

This book provides ways of thinking for preservice and new teachers to transition from the theory behind curricular design to engaged teaching and learning in the classroom.

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

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners.

Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through over-regulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence on public opinion.

Assessment in Science combines professional development and classroom practice in a single volume.

This volume provides a comprehensive summary of developments in theories and techniques within the areas of sampling, measurement, and statistical methods for analyzing behavioral data.

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology.

Current economic difficulties and the challenge of competing in the world market have necessitated a rethinking of American approaches to the utilization of people in organizations.

This book adopts a multi-method and multi-phase approach to investigate the washback effects of Test for English Majors (TEM) on program administrators, teachers and students, shedding new light on TEM reform and the reform of English teaching and learning in China.

This is a surprising and welcome book a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teaching.

Explore multiple practical and theoretical dimensions of needs assessment.

This innovative book offers a new approach to assessment in which learners can follow their own learning journey using cumulative feedback or measurements of distance travelled from different starting points.

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

Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model.

A guide to current practice in assessment, particularly for those professionals coming to terms with new pressures on their traditional teaching practices.

This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context.

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

This volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design.

The one and only bestselling official guide to the TOEFL, from the makers of the test!

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.

Using assessment systems to improve student outcomes requires shared understanding and collaboration among education stakeholders at multiple levels.

The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) is a definitive guide at the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and education.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been an active international influence in the assessment, development, and reform of national educational systems worldwide.