Education: examinations and assessment

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

Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance.

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

This timely collection explores the role of digital technology in language education and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From distinguished scholar Donna M.

This is an accessible text for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood.

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

What is assessment literacy?

Most guides to the process of turning around low-performing schools are written for principals and policy makers.

The second edition of Effective Grading the book that has become a classic in the field provides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link between teaching and grading.

The focus on smart education has become a new trend in the global educational field.

Teacher Toolkit Guides transform the theory of education into practical ideas for your classroom.

Part of The Essential SENCO Toolkit series, this invaluable resource offers practical ideas and materials to allow SENCOs and SEN practitioners to capture learning, demonstrate the impact of SEN support, and analyse whether provision is effectively tackling barriers to learning.

This book is an indispensable yet simple reference for the daily use of a medical teacher.

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

In this volume prominent scholars from both psychology and education describe how these new rules of measurement work and how they differ from the old rules.

Are you thinking about applying to teacher training in England?

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) has emerged in recent decades as an important policy area and policy concept.

Your ideal, all-inclusive study guide for the PHR and SPHR exams Adding the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) or Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification to your resume immediately places you above less qualified competitors.

Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity.

This book, along with its companion volume Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms, was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England.

Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such as personality, psychopathology, and patient-reported outcomes.

How do teachers develop their understanding of the foundation principles of assessment , stay up to date with the latest classroom approaches and have the confidence to evaluate and question the effectiveness of new methods?

Today's evaluators are being challenged to help design and evaluate social programs intended to prevent and ameliorate complex social problems in a variety of settings, including schools, communities, and not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.

As pedagogical leaders, principals and vice-principals must necessarily prioritize teacher supervision.

Large-scale assessment and standardized testing have the power to either open or close future doors for your students.

Assessment 101 is your all-in-one guide to conducting and facilitating assessment in specific programs, as well as coordinating institution-wide assessment processes.

Instruction in the areas of professional organization, planning, and learning theory, especially as it pertains to precluding student disciplinary issues, has been diminished in most teacher preparation programs.

Assessing Unstoppable Learning explains how K-12 teachers and administrators can work in collaborative teams to form effective and efficient assessment systems in their schools that help all students maximize their learning.

This volume describes, compares, and analyses the experience of 'defending' the doctoral dissertation in a final oral examination in universities and traditions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond.

The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district.

What students are deemed to have achieved when they are sixteen is the measure of how successful or otherwise their progress through the system of compulsory education has been.

This volume focuses on the need to establish good leadership in academic settings and higher education institutions in India.

This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model - the 3A Methodology - for assessing the quality of school education.

This volume provides insights into the teaching and learning practices and experiences of diversity educators and their students.

This book aims to advance language program evaluation and practice, building on the author's previous work in Blended Language Program Evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever.

To "e;tune the rig"e; describes adjusting a ship's rigging; the rig of a well-tuned boat allows the sails to function well.

This book brings together contributions from different scholarly contexts that address a diverse range of focused topics, as well as empirical and conceptual perspectives, on research with international studies.

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest ScoreWe want you to succeed on the Math sections of the ACT.

The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education.

This volume presents an analysis of the Erasmus+ funding process.

Educational Testing provides support for those undertaking training in, and for training providers of, the Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET) (Level A).

This book discusses teacher evaluation and how it can provide the foundations for professional development.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

Published in 1980, Applications of Item Response Theory To Practical Testing Problems is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of educational therapy.

Die COVID-Pandemie bewirkt einen starken Digitalisierungsschub der Hochschullehre, der die Interaktionen von Studierenden und Lehrenden nachhaltig beeinflusst und zu einer steigenden Vielfalt von Lehr- und Lernmethoden führt.