Clearly set out in three specific sections, this book argues that that existing grading practices cannot cope with the expectations laid upon them, while the potential of formative assessment for the support of learning is not fully realised, discusses how institutions need to respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed.
Clearly set out in three specific sections, this book argues that that existing grading practices cannot cope with the expectations laid upon them, while the potential of formative assessment for the support of learning is not fully realised, discusses how institutions need to respond in policy terms to the challenges that have been posed.
There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students' learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study. This book draws on assessment in higher education, examining it from the point of view of what assessment does and can do.
Explains the difference between formative and summative assessment. This book covers writing and sharing learning intentions and success criteria; promoting high quality interaction in lessons, verbal and written feedback, self- and peer- assessment.
Presents a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address accountability requirements and focus on improving learning. Offering many applications and examples, this title guides teachers in developing the assessment tools needed to help students meet or exceed mandated academic standards.
Assessment dominates our lives but its good intentions often produce negative consequences. This book seeks to reclaim assessment as a constructive activity which can encourage deeper learning. It raises controversial questions about uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them.
Assessing learning in an online environment is being used by teachers and institutions at an increasing rate. This book provides practical guidance on various aspects of online assessment including - types of assessment - choosing the right software - examples of e-assessment over a variety of disciplines - making e-assessment interactive.
Takes readers through the fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the controversial issues in education, from high-stakes testing to special education. This book walks readers through everyday examples to show how tests can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.
How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can't tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. This book demystifies educational testing - from MCAS to SAT to WAIS.
Highlights the fundamental connections between assessment, teaching and learning, and offers suggestions for maximising assessment in schools. Drawing on empirical research, this book focuses on the purpose of assessment, and suggests strategies for managing assessment in an effective way. It considers the role of assessment in promoting learning.
Using a highly creative approach, this book explains in detail how assessment, thinking and learning can be integrated in science lessons. More than 30 different assessment techniques are described, with each one illustrated for two different age ranges.
Presents a fresh approach to the design and implementation of classroom assessment and large scale assessment by examining how the participants (teachers and students) actually understand what they are doing in assessment and make recommendations as to how improvements can be made to training, policy, and assessment innovations.
Prepares students, program administrators, and new evaluators to conduct evaluations or to use them in their work. This book explores how to: articulate answerable evaluation questions, collect and analyze data using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and deal with contingencies that might alter the traditional sequence of an evaluation.
Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment or intervention at home or in school, this book explores topics ranging from the legislative background and foundations of ideas in the social sciences, to dealing with children's distress, fear or special needs in professional practice.
Presents information on assessment practices and offers 49 examples of institutional, program, and individual assessment that are practical and useful. This book is suitable for assessment professionals, academic and student affairs administrators, faculty and staff.
Explores the development of Singapore's education and examination system. This volume juxtaposes examinations with its context of education and the context of politics, economy and society. It covers three periods: Examinations in Singapore from 1891 to 1945; Post-War Years from 1946 to the 1970s; and Charting Our Destiny from the 1980s to 2007.
An action plan for taking the 11+: understanding the exam, deciding whether to enter your child, when to start, what to do, how to manage the whole experience in a stress-free way. Includes placement tests that assess a child's present level of performance.
This volume provides a summary of traditional and modern psychometrics pertaining to scoring tests. It is intended for those interested in the integration of educational assessment and policy, test design and development, and procedures for test administration and scoring.
Suitable for clinicians completing insurance forms, participating in managed care, or practicing in treatment settings requiring formalized goals and treatment objectives, this book outlines treatment objectives for various types of psychopathologies as defined by the diagnostic and statistical manual by the American Psychiatric Association.
Because the drive toward external assessment speaks almost exclusively in terms of standardized testing, we need to be reminded of the internal purposes of assessment: measuring learning for both student and teacher so that instruction can be adjusted and improved.
As schools increasingly focus on standards-based educational requirements, many educators face significant issues about equitable grading policies for diverse student populations. This edited volume offers specific suggestions for improving grading policies and practices at the school and classroom levels.
This book emphasizes formal statistical features of the practice of equating and scaling, discusses the quality of the equating results from the statistical perspective as opposed to focusing on policy and implications, which represent a different side.
A teachers guide that offers a framework for planning, administering, scoring, and interpreting a range of formal and informal assessments, and for using the results to improve instruction. It includes examples that illustrate ways to evaluate K-8 students' strengths and weaknesses in each of the core competencies that good readers need to master.
Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from middle-class backgrounds. This guide looks at the issues in educational assessment and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement valid assessments for use in classrooms.
Explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in US schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Presents research in the study of achievement tests, including visual motor assessment tests and assistive technologies as applied to adults with learning disabilities; and using teacher's recommendations and achievement tests for promoting ethnic minority students into secondary schools.
A step-by-step guide for the assessment process. It provides cost-efficient and useful tools that fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, and review boards, to ensure a simple, successful assessment. It also explores the areas of planning, budgeting, and the changes in the curriculum, pedagogy, and programming.
Settles that age-old argument between the generations: were the exams of yesteryear really harder than anything children have to face today in the age of calculators and spell checkers? This work tests you on old-school topics such as: English Language; General Science; Geography; History; Household Cookery; Mathematics; and Music.
Examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This title traces standardized testing's origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency movements of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers, this book contains a review of the research background and of the project itself. It contains chapters describing the practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate.
Helping headteachers gain support for transitioning from traditional to standards-based report cards, this book guides educators in aligning assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and providing detailed reports of children's learning and achievement. It provides a framework for developing standards-based report cards.
Helps students at different grade levels improve their test scores in all content areas. Using multiple intelligences as a framework, this comprehensive resource offers techniques that seek to strengthen critical thinking, build test-taking skills, and motivate students to perform their best without undue stress.
Prepares students, program administrators, and new evaluators to conduct evaluations or to use them in their work. This book explores how to: articulate answerable evaluation questions, collect and analyze data using both quantitative and qualitative methods, and deal with contingencies that might alter the traditional sequence of an evaluation.
Assessing Primary Sciencegives all the support to deliver Assessing Pupils' Progress. Part of a series comprising three Teaching Files, each covers two year groups, which gives a range of tasks covering all the assessment foci for Assessing Pupils' Progress in science.
Research shows that formative assessment moves learning forward, but the idea that assessment and teaching are reciprocal activities is still not situated in the practice of all educators. This book helps educators to understand the role of formative assessment and implement it as part of teaching and learning.
E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. They can serve as an administrative tool to manage and organise work. This work acts as a practical guide for lecturers and staff developers who need to know more about the development of purposeful e-portfolios for supporting students in reflecting on their learning.
A study aid to the ACT Reading section which presents principles and strategies that promote effective reading. It includes sample passages with commentary on how to select the correct answers. It features strategies for tackling reading comprehension passages under the pressure of time.
Proposes simple, step-by-step eight stages of test construction, with each chapter being concerned only with one stage. This book focuses on practice rather than theory since an actual test was used to act as a reference example to shows how each step and stage of the test construction process can be put into action.
Assessment can be the hardest part of any teacher's job. It is easy to fall into the trap of seeing it all as unnecessary paperwork and feeling guilty about not having done it properly. This book offers practical advice on how teachers can get the most out of assessment for their students.
Assessing Primary Sciencegives all the support to deliver Assessing Pupils' Progress. Part of a series comprising three Teaching Files, each covers two year groups, which gives a range of tasks covering all the assessment foci for Assessing Pupils' Progress in science.
Focussing on various aspects of test development, this handbook provides treatment of such topics as contracting for testing services, designing tests, and writing technical reports. It is organized into six sections: foundations, content, item development, test design, test production and administration, and post-test activities.
How to assess the learning potential of every student - English Language Learners, special needs, struggling students, and high performers, alike. An essential resource for differentiating instruction with multi-level students in secondary mainstream classrooms. Bonus DVD contains videos of assessment in practice..
Suitable for health professions - people in teaching, research, administration, student testing and professionals in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and other health fields, this text presents assessment fundamentals and their theoretical underpinnings, covering the specific assessment methods used in various health professions.
Drawing on incidents and case studies from primary classrooms, this book describes and analyses how teachers use formative assessment to promote learning. It provides teachers, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers with a grasp of issues in formative assessment and how they relate to the improvement of pupil learning.
A guide for anyone who wants to secure their ideal job. This book explains how numerical tests work, gives helpful pointers on how to get ready, and provides professionally constructed sample questions for you to try out at home. It also contains a section on online testing - the route that more and more recruiters are choosing to take.
In today's rapidly changing and information-rich world, students are not acquiring adequate knowledge and skills to prepare them for careers in mathematics, science, and technology with the traditional approach to assessment and instruction. This title explores the faces of future assessment - and ask hard questions.
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a college entrance examination, which can be taken in any country and is recognized by universities in any country. This work offers two stories woven together: the birth and the growth of IB in the world and the United States, and the birth and growth of IB at Mount Vernon High.
Offers a novel approach for educational assessment courses. Stressing a practical approach that encourages students to think critically about designing the appropriate assessment for a wide range of situations, this title provides students with tools they can use in their classrooms.
Covers various perspectives from the fields of assessment policy development, and theories of learning and the sociology of the classroom. This book explores how the assessment of young children is carried out in classrooms and with what consequences for their understanding of schooling and the development of their learning in particular subjects.
Self-assessment is increasingly used in higher education as a strategy for both student learning and assessment. This book examines the full range of concerns about self-assessment, placing it in the wider context of innovative teaching and learning practices.
Is the nation really dumbing down? Are exams easier than they were in the good old days? This book helps you to find out whether age really does equal wisdom. Presented a retro design, it helps you write an essay on one of the following subjects: Description of 'The Bravest Deed that I know'; 'Gardening' or 'Sewing'; and Eggs.
Shows teachers how to create and implement formative assessments in their middle and high school science classrooms. This guide covers various science content areas as well as five types of formative assessments: big idea questions, concept maps, evidence-to-explanation, predict-observe-explain, and multiple choice.
Helps you assess pupils' progress with a variety of practical activities. This title features 50 practical suggestions and activity ideas that can be taken and used straight-away in the classroom in an easy to use at-a-glance format. It also includes a quick reference problem related index.
Since the first edition of this book was written, the world of assessment in higher education has changed. This very practical resource, provides guidance for all aspects of student learning assessment, offers options to select and adapt to the particular circumstances, on any campus.
Assessing Primary Science gives all the support to deliver Assessing Pupils' Progress. Part of a series comprising three Teaching Files, each covers two year groups, which gives a range of tasks covering all the assessment foci for Assessing Pupils' Progress in science.
Rasch models are used for analysing data from assessments to measure things such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. For example, they may be used to estimate a student's reading ability from answers to questions on a reading assessment, or the extremity of a person's attitude to capital punishment from responses on a questionnaire.
Helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment. This book offers guidance for designing and implementing assessment practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. It is filled with illustrative case studies and assessments based in real-life application of concepts.
Helps readers grasp the essence of sound teacher evaluation and be able to apply its principles, facts, ideas, processes, and procedures. This book invites and assists school professionals and other readers to examine the developments in teacher evaluation.