Assessment as Learning
Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning!High-stakes tests and end-of-year assessments dominate educational planning and curriculum. Yet, formative assessments are proven to have the most impact on day-to-day learning. ...
Assessment as Learning
Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning! High-stakes tests and end-of-year assessments dominate educational planning and curriculum. Yet, formative assessments are proven to have the most impact on day-to-day le...
Assessment of Learning
This book takes a critical look at how students' achievements are assessed for a range of purposes, from reporting progress to selection and qualification. It considers the relationship between what is taught, and how, and what and how learning ou...
Assessment and Learning
Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning...
Assessment for Learning
"This is a surprising and welcome book... a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teachin...
Assessment and Learning
Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning...
Assessment of Learning
This book takes a critical look at how students' achievements are assessed for a range of purposes, from reporting progress to selection and qualification. It considers the relationship between what is taught, and how, and what and how learning ou...
Learning Assessment Techniques
50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning? Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? Gather information that can help ma...
Learners, Learning & Assessment
This textbook provides a theoretical framework for considering past and current developments in research into views of the mind and of learning. Controversial aspects of learning theories are examined, in particular the differing perspectives on t...
Learners, Learning & Assessment
This textbook provides a theoretical framework for considering past and current developments in research into views of the mind and of learning. Controversial aspects of learning theories are examined, in particular the differing perspectives on t...
Assessment for learning
Raising student achievement has benefits not only for the individual, but for society as well. In this lecture Dylan Wiliam argues that many efforts at reform have focused on things that are easy to change rather than those that would make the mos...
Digital Portfolios in the Classroom
Assessment is messy. Day-to-day, in-the-moment assessments not only reveal information that drives future instruction but also offer a comprehensive picture of students' abilities and dispositions toward learning. As teachers, we might kn...
Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy
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. This book takes a broad and deep view of research involving assessme...
Assessment, Learning And Employability
What is assessed gets attention: what is not assessed does not. When higher education is expected to promote complex achievements in subject disciplines and in terms of 'employability', problems arise: how are such achievements to be assessed? <...
Perfect Assessment (for Learning)
This book includes valuable strategies, such as: How to shift a staff culture in order to embed AfL (engaging hearts and minds) Effective use of learning objectives and success criteria Peer and self assessment Talk for learning Activating pupils ...
Student Perspectives on Assessment
Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. However, how students themselves perceive assessments (both high-stakes qualifications and low-stakes monitoring) is not well understood. Thi...
Flipped Assessment
New release on the significance of assessment in a student-centered learning cultureFlipped Assessment presents formative assessment as the most important factor in a student-centered learning culture. The book is built on practical ...
Dynamic Assessment of Students' Academic Writing
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. DA blends instruction with assessment by ...
Leading Learning
The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leader...
Learning as a Way of Leading
This book offers a systematic look at the connections between learning and leading and the use of learning to inspire and organize for change. It explores two interrelated dimensions of learning leadership: the ways leaders themselves learn about ...
Language Assessment for Classroom Teachers
This book provides teachers with an entirely new approach to developingand using classroom-based language assessments. This approach is basedon current theory and practice in the field of language assessment andon an understanding of the assessmen...
L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This book explores second language (L2) learning, teaching and assessment from a comprehensible input (CI) perspective. This focus on the role of input is important for deepening our understanding of interactions between the learner, teacher and t...
Dynamic Assessment of Language Learning
This is a practical, accessible manual for Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists and Educators who assess children with language impairments, explaining how and why to implement Dynamic Assessment and gives you a huge range of ...
Improving Learning through Dynamic Assessment
Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment is a practical tool for helping to assess and support children aged 4+ with learning challenges based on an innovative approach. Contrasting with traditional 'static' assessment methods, this resource ...
Enhancing Learning Through Self-assessment
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 learni...
Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice
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. The simple message is good teaching can overcome bad testing and central to ass...
Active Assessment for Science
Everybody seems to be talking about assessment for learning. This book shows how to do it. Using a highly creative approach it explains in detail how assessment, thinking and learning can be integrated in science lessons. More than 30 different as...
Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World
This book is the first to explore the big question of how assessment can be refreshed and redesigned in an evolving digital landscape. There are many exciting possibilities for assessments that contribute dynamically to learning. However, the inte...
Reform as Learning
Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this b...
Learning as Development
Learning is the foundation of the human experience. It begins at birth and never stops, a continuous and malleable link across life stages of human development. Disparities in learning access and outcomes around the world have deep consequences fo...
The Concise Companion to Language Assessment
The Concise Companion to Language Assessment provides a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial areas of language assessment, teaching, and learning. Edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, The Concise Companion combines newly commissioned articles on innovations in assessment with a selection of chapters from The Companion to Language Assessment, the landmark four-volume reference work first published in 2013. Presented in eight themes, The Concise Companion addresses a broad range of language assessment methods, issues, and contexts. Forty-five chapters cover assessment conceptualization, development, research, and policy, as well as recent changes in language assessment technology, learning-oriented assessment, teacher-based assessment, teacher assessment literacy, plurilingual assessment, assessment for immigration, and more. Exploring the past, present, and future possibilities of the dynamic field, The Concise Companion to Language Assessment: * Contains dedicated
Leading Collaborative Learning
Leadership, collaborative learning, and student achievement – discover what works! Today’s improving school systems require educators who intentionally collaborate and co-learn in service of students to get exp...
Leading professional learning
Todays school leaders are faced with the increasingly daunting task of leading their schools to improve, to innovate and to become ever more responsive to change. There are many resources to help schools to engage with improvement frameworks, but ...
Learning Oriented Assessment
Learning Oriented Assessment
Educational Potential of e-Portfolios
E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. They can serve as an administrative tool to manage and organise work, to present course assignments and act as the medium for learners to record their learning goals, outcomes and achieveme...
CEFR-informed Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This book is a practical guide to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) and the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR/ CV;
Developing Portfolios for Learning and Assessment
The portfolio is a collection of work recording an individual's achievements over an extended period of time. They can be used¿at all¿stages of education and professional development and in a variety of ways,¿to show mastery of subject knowledge, ...
Assessment for Learning in Higher Education
"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." -...
Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning
The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.