Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform: Standards and Standard Setting for Excellence in Education

ISBN-13: 9781032085128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Vanessa Scherman

Opis

Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform provides background information on large scale examination systems more generally and the South African examination specifically.

Spis treści

1. Background and introduction.  2. Background to large-scale examination systems.  3. Perspectives on education assessment reform.  4. Equating examinations and assessment standards in the South African context.  5. The management and quality assurance of school-based assessment in South Africa.  6. Using examination and assessment scores: Different ways of reporting performance.  7. Rethinking standard setting: Drawing from advances in modern test theory.  8. Item banking and computer adaptive testing.  9. Developing a computerised system for large scale computer adaptive testing (CAT).  10. Educational assessment in a time of reform: Where to from here?

O autorze

Coert Loock is a professor at Department of Education Leadership and Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vanessa Scherman is a professor at Department of Psychology of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa.