Education: examinations and assessment

The Uses of Schooling, first published in 1988, proposes a radically different approach to the evaluation of education.

Despite feedback's demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply.

Automatic item generation (AIG) represents a relatively new and unique research area where specific cognitive and psychometric theories are applied to test construction practices for the purpose of producing test items using technology.

Defining Assessment in the widest possible way, ann Filer and Andrew Pollard have produced the most comprehensive ethnographic study of assessment ever attempted.

Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform provides background information on large-scale examination systems more generally and the South African examination specifically.

Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students.

This book explores assessment practices that offer an enlightening and enabling view of all learners.

In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers.

This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume.

Student Plagiarism in Higher Education is a crucial read for any university teacher concerned about plagiarism.

This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can - or should - choose students during the early part of the 21st century.

This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development.

Assessment is central to ensemble music.

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

There is convincing evidence that carefully applied classroom assessments can promote student learning and academic self-regulation.

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within the context of ever-increasing privatization and commercialization of education and the growing presence of non-state actors.

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

Identifying 'networked flow' as the key driver of networked creativity, this new volume in the Springer Briefs series deploys concepts from a range of sub-disciplines in psychology to suggest ways of optimizing the innovative potential of creative networks.

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

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This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors' and students' conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision.

This book examines student achievement in global tests in Middle Eastern countries.

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.

The credentials environment grows more complicated by the day, but key questions help us understand why we need this book to help us grapple with those complexities: * Given the expansion in the variety of higher education credentials and in approaches to earning them, why are so many students disappointed with their post-secondary credentials?

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.

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.

Action Research, the definitive destination.

Accrediting boards, the federal government, and state legislatures are now requiring a greater level of accountability from higher education.

In the real world a lot of activities require people to work in groups.

Now in a revised and expanded fifth edition that reflects current research and best practices in direct assessment and intervention, this text addresses a perennial need for school practitioners and practitioners in training.

This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries.

Assessment in Higher Education brings together in one place most of the major issues confronting higher education in the 1990s.

This component of Assessing Media Education is intended for those who would like to know how other schools have grappled with implementing assessment initiatives, and who have used assessment to improve their programs.

The new comparative research in this volume explores the global flow of competence-based education, curricular policy, and frameworks for instructional practice.

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.

The rediscovery of the value of apprenticeships has been one of the most significant trends in vocational education in recent years, and has prompted an array of research and development projects in countries around the world.

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.

This book brings together policymaker and practitioner knowledge, experiences, and perspectives on the interaction between the assessment and inclusion agenda to the fore.

Offering a contemporary overview of how visual art teachers assess learning in their classrooms, this book provides an outline of the role of assessment in reporting not only student achievement but also how student assessment ties to the intrinsic and external assessments of teacher performance.

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 book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

L’évaluation des apprentissages représente tout un défi dans le réseau de l’éducation au Québec.

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

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners' written texts.

The Second Canadian Conference on Education, held in Montreal, was the result of several years of determined effort by representatives of organizations concerned directly or indirectly with education, and convinced that "e;wider public understanding of Canada's educational needs and problems would be a major step towards their solution.

Treatment Fidelity in Studies of Educational Intervention is a detailed guide to the increasing emphasis on methodological rigor and implementation fidelity in educational research.