Education: examinations and assessment

Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning.

With foreword by Cassandra ErkensThe assessment process can be a rich experience for you and your students.

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.

School administration is more difficult today than at any time in our history.

This comprehensive book provides all the information that practitioners need to know about assessment in relation to their pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties.

Reflecting the internationalization of the field of second language writing, this book focuses on political aspects and pedagogical issues of writing instruction and testing in a global context.

This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact.

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

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

The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment.

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

This book proposes a method to evaluate the work of teachers acting in a very specific educational context: graduate programs at higher education institutions.

Criminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.

This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels.

This book examines very important issues in research evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

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 book examines important advances and offers a realistic image of the state of the art in student learning outcomes assessment in higher education-a field close to the core of nearly every higher education institution.

These conference proceedings focus on "e;Assessment for Learning: Within and Beyond the Classroom"e; in recognition of the power of assessment for learning as a way of boosting student performance.

A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project.

Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)the nation's report cardhas been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject areas.

In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M.

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

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.

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

Score your highest on the Spanish-translated GED Passing the GED provides Spanish-speakers with expanded job and educational opportunities, like attending college or starting a successful career.

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As reform in all sectors of education continues, it is becoming increasingly important that we develop a rich understanding of what "e;intelligence"e; is, and how it can be improved.

This book offers a coherent research-based overview and analysis of theories and practices in using data to improve student learning.

In recent decades, the science of reading acquisition has been advancing through interdisciplinary research in cognitive, psycholinguistic, developmental, genetic, neuroscience, cross-language, and experimental comparison studies of effective instruction.

Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments.

This book is a useful guide for the teaching fraternity, administrators and education technology professionals to make good use of AI across outcome-based technical education (OBTE) ecosystem and infuse innovations and affordable digital technologies to traditional pedagogic processes to make teaching-learning more independent of human factor (teacher/student quality), time and place and at the same time more impactful and enjoyable for the learners.

This book discusses instruction, learning, and assessment in higher education with an emphasis on several effective formative assessment tools and methods such as digital badges, reflective journals, and peer assessment used in learning environments comprising students of diverse, multicultural backgrounds.

An insightful inside perspective on the implementation of instructional improvement measures in a large urban K12 district

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This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "e;general factor"e; of intelligence is.

This book presents research on emotion work and the emotional labour of teaching and learning based in England's further education sector, where an increasing emphasis on marketised systems means accountability and audit cultures have become embedded within everyday teaching practice.

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"e;an invaluable guide for practitioners, quality assurors, university managers and students themselves who wish to better understand the importance of assessment for learning, and it will further scholarship in the field significantly.

Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance.

Composition in Convergence: The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment considers how technological forms--such as computers and online courses--transform the assessment of writing, in addition to text classroom activity.

Revolutionize the walkthrough to focus on the endgame of teaching: student learning.

This book explores curricular, teaching and learning practices in schools in England and in higher education institutions, and considers the damaging effects of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for UK higher education institutions, international comparative assessment systems such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and broadly, how educational judgements are now made about educational matters.

This book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning.

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?

Este libro ha sido escrito en Uruguay, pero pensando en los docentes de toda América Latina, maestros y profesores de educación primaria y media.

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today's technology-enhanced educational measurement sector.

This book presents evidence-based practices for appropriate assessment of and school-based services for young English language learners.