Education: examinations and assessment

Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't.

This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities.

1,001 practice opportunities for passing the GED test Ready to take the GED test?

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies.

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

All teachers are responsible for assessing the children they teach, and the outcomes of any assessment are important for individual learners, schools and wider education systems.

Essential reading to support principled assessment decisions in the classroom Assessment has become an increasingly complex area for primary schools in recent years, with schools and academy trusts trying to create their own ways of assessing without levels.

With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on standardized achievement tests.

As an educator, are you struggling with any of the following challenges?

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.

Perhaps no topic in higher education is more controversial than admissions, whether it be to a prestigious college, graduate schools, or professional schools.

This is the story of one school's successful journey to a 'life after levels'.

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning.

This book provides an analysis of how inspection teams evaluate schools - especially how they decide on assigning scores.

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

University rankings have gained popularity around the world and are now a significant factor shaping reputation.

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.

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

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies.

This book is about student success and how to support and improve it.

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

When educators participate fully in the consistent and systematic process of collaborative common assessments, teachers, learners, and schools all thrive.

An ideal step-by-step reference for instructors who have not had specific training in assessing students with special needs, Understanding Assessment in the Special Education Process helps educators make the most effective use of available assessment options.

It's a challenge every teacher faces.

Trends in standardized test scores reveal an alarming truth: our educational system is failing our students, and America is falling behind other nations in producing competent students for a global economy.

The goal of this book is to foster a basic understanding of factor analytic techniques so that readers can use them in their own research and critically evaluate their use by other researchers.

Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life.

This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensions.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures - from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel.

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

Now in its second edition, this important book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation, and meaning.

This book offers an insight into the research and practices of science teaching and learning in the Singapore classroom, with particular attention paid to how they map on to science as inquiry.

This valuable resource helps institutional leaders understand and implement a data strategy at their college or university that maximizes benefits to all creators and users of data.

How should we assess and present information about the quality of research-doctorate programs?

This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens.

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

Several key developments challenge the field of educational measurement today: demands for tests at larger scales with higher stakes, an improved understanding of how people develop capabilities, and new technologies for interactive digital assessments.

Intelligence, Instruction, and Assessment shows how modern theories of intelligence can be directly applied by educators to the teaching of subject matter, regardless of the age of the students or the content being taught.

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Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture.

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.

The fast and easy way to score higher on the SAT Does the thought of preparing for the SAT cause you to break out in a cold sweat?

On campuses across the United States and beyond, schools of business, education, law, liberal arts, management, medical professions, pharmacy, and physical or social sciences are beginning to use assessment rubrics for purposes of formative and summative evaluation.

This book provides a thorough and directed focus on successfully identifying, obtaining, and succeeding in a career in criminal justice or criminology.

This book challenges institutions and their programs to prioritize the use of chronological assessment results to benefit enrolled students in comparison with the more common practice of prolonged assessment cycles that generally benefit future students.

Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book AwardThis book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam.

This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good.

This book explores how school leadership plays a significant role in addressing the issues of poor learning among students in India.