Educational Assessment in the 21st Century Connecting Theory and Practice

Even in the white heat of the ever-present education debate, assessment is one of the hottest and most contested topics. While teachers develop practical methodologies such as Assessment for Learning, that aim to bring positive benefits to learners, governments and policy-makers strengthen the role...

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Other Authors: Wyatt-Smith, Claire (Editor), Cumming, Joy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Framing Assessment Today for the Future: Issues and Challenges
  • Framing Assessment Today for the Future: Issues and Challenges
  • Creativity and Innovation in Assessment: New Skills and Capabilities, and Changing Communication Practices
  • Assessment in the Perspective of a Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodal Teaching and Learning
  • Transforming K–12 Assessment: Integrating Accountability Testing, Formative Assessment and Professional Support
  • Assessment Issues and New Technologies: ePortfolio Possibilities
  • Towards Theorising Assessment as Critical Inquiry
  • Building Social Capital: Difference, Diversity and Social Inclusion
  • Fairness in Assessment
  • Assessment, Gender and In/Equity
  • Assessment, Disability, Student Engagement and Responses to Intervention
  • Assessment Challenges, the Law and the Future
  • Assessment in a Context: Geography, Policy and Practice
  • Teachers’ Use of Assessment Data
  • A Problematic Leap in the Use of Test Data: From Performance to Inference
  • Educational Assessment in Norway—A Time of Change
  • Articulating Tacit Knowledge Through Analyses of Recordings: Implications for Competency Assessment in the Vocational Education and Training Sector
  • Defining Standards for the 21st Century