Education: examinations and assessment

The Mindfulness-Informed Educator moves a growing body of evidence related to the efficacy of mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches to the context of higher education, suggesting ways to foster psychological flexibility within and outside of the classroom.

Published with Kappa Delta Pi, Creativity and Education in China takes readers on a journey through research-supported ideas and practical examples of creative and innovative schooling within a changing regime.

Formative assessment has recently become a focus of renewed research as state and federal policy-makers realize that summative assessments have reached a point of diminishing returns as a tool for increasing student achievement.

In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W.

Outdoor Learning in Higher Education is essential reading for educational developers and academic teachers of all disciplines interested in the theory behind, and benefits of, learning outdoors.

This second edition of the alternative grading classic revisits specs grading with a robust body of research, exemplars, and strategies to elevate the quality of student work, increase engagement and buy-in, reduce faculty stress, and cultivate students' career competencies.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years.

Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies.

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.

Drawing on Game-Based Learning and other innovations, this textbook establishes the Challenge Model of learning-an interactive format that involves meaningful learner decisions leading to exploration of different outcomes.

What statistical evidence shows us about our misguided educational policiesUneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities.

Rethinking Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: An Institutional Case Study explores the complexities of multilingual students as language users and learners, emphasizing the distinctive assets that they bring to their education and the ways in which institutions of higher education can better meet their needs.

Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today.

Grading systems often reward on-time task completion and penalize disorganization and bad behavior.

Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors.

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.

Investigating School Psychology provides a fascinating exploration of the field of school psychology through the lens of pseudoscience and fringe science.

The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children's mastery of critical school subjects.

Written by Rena M.

How do you know if students are with you at the beginning, middle, and end of a lesson?

Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties.

English-medium universities around the world face real challenges in ensuring that incoming students have the language and literacy skills they need to cope with the demands of their degree programmes.

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.

'This is a very exciting book and should be read widely by anyone who wants a better understanding of the role of assessment in the diverse, globalised, digital societies of the 21st century.

While there is consensus that institutions need to represent their educational effectiveness through documentation of student learning, the higher education community is divided between those who support national standardized tests to compare institutions' educational effectiveness, and those who believe that valid assessment of student achievement is based on assessing the work that students produce along and at the end of their educational journeys.

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment.

Dynamic complexity results from hidden, un-known factors-or more precisely, interactions between factors-that can unexpectedly im-pact the perfor-mance of systems.

This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs.

This book demonstrates how to conduct latent variable modeling (LVM) in R by highlighting the features of each model, their specialized uses, examples, sample code and output, and an interpretation of the results.

500 Ways to Achieve Your Highest ScoreWe want you to succeed on the Critical Reading section of the SAT.

This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education.

This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining.

Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice is about the purpose of teaching and assessment as a means to ensuring deep, maximised, engaged and challenging learning.

Educational Testing & Measurement Revised and updated edition of the reader-friendly, classroom-relevant introduction to testing and assessment, designed for educators to meet today's challenges in measuring student progress Educational Testing and Measurement, Twelfth Edition, is a revised and updated practical resource that will enhance assessment literacy to help prepare current and prospective teachers to navigate today's changing world of educational testing and assessment.

Mario Vennemann untersucht die Relevanz der Schülerzusammensetzung für den Kompetenzerwerb an Grundschulen unter Nutzung eines längsschnittlichen Erhebungsdesigns und eines elaborierten methodischen Instrumentariums.

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.

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?

This edited book focuses on the central and up-to-date issues that represent some of the most relevant challenges and limitations of International Learning Assessments (ILSAs).

Formative Messmodelle sind in der Psychologie und Erziehungswissenschaft weitgehend unbekannt, wohingegen sie in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften zum Standardrepertoire gehören.

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Teachers evaluate students' work constantly.

Luisa Weidauer beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund wachsender Anforderungen an den Pflegeberuf mit innovativen Prüfungskonzeptionen.

This book presents an in-depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning.