International Trends in Educational Assessment

Emerging Issues and Practices
 
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ISBN13:9789004393424
ISBN10:90043934211
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:104 pages
Size:235x155 mm
Weight:190 g
Language:English
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Short description:

This book will provide teachers, school administrators, policy makers, teacher trainers and educational researchers with an up-to-date information about and current trends in assessment theories, methods and application to facilitate informed-practices in educational settings.

Long description:
Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of the educational process. Quality and purposeful assessment can assist in students? learning and their achievement. In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the roles of educational measurement, evaluation, and assessment with a view to improving the education systems throughout the world. Educators are interested in how to adequately prepare the young generation to meet the ever-growing demands of the 21st century utilizing robust assessment methods. There has also been increased demand in accountability and outcomes assessment in schools to bridge the gap between classroom practices and measurement and assessment of learners? performance. This volume contains selected and invited papers from the First International Conference on Educational Measurement, Evaluation and Assessment (ICEMEA).



Contributors are: Peter Adams, Derin Atay, Nafisa Awwal, Helen Barefoot, Patrick Griffin, Bahar Hasirci, Didem Karakuzular, Don Klinger,
Leigh Powell, Vicente Reyes, Mark Russell, Charlene Tan, Bryan Taylor, and Zhang Quan.
Table of Contents:
Preface

List of Figures and Tables



1. What Can We Learn from PISA?

Peter Adams

2. Rasch Model: Research and Practice in China

Zhang Quan

3. Assessment Reforms in High
-Performing Education Systems: Shanghai and Singapore


Vicente Reyes and Charlene Tan

4. The ESCAPE Project: Background, Sustainability and Transferability

Mark Russell, Helen Barefoot, Bryan Taylor and Leigh Powell

5. The Pitfalls and Potentials of Classroom and Large
-Scale Assessments


Don A. Klinger

6. A Process Perspective of Collaborative Problem Solving

Patrick Griffin and Nafisa Awwal

7. Assessment Literacy of Turkish Teachers of English Language: A Comparative Study

Bahar Hasirci, Didem Karakuzular and Derin Atay