This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach, it offers a fascinating case study of how post-16 assessment systems are designed and debated inside policy making processes. This case study highlights the broader tensions at the heart of assessment policy. The book also explores the complex factors that affect how teachers and students use formative assessment to achieve higher standards of educational attainment and more autonomous learning. Learning Autonomy in Post-16...
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach,...
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach, it offers a fascinating case study of how post-16 assessment systems are designed and debated inside policy making processes. This case study highlights the broader tensions at the heart of assessment policy. The book also explores the complex factors that affect how teachers and students use formative assessment to achieve higher standards of educational attainment and more autonomous learning. Learning Autonomy in Post-16...
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach,...
New forms of assessment and new learning programmes require teachers to be more flexible in their approach. NVQS, GNVQS, the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), modular programmes and credit transfer, have all put pressure on institutions in their assessment procedures. Using case studies from schools and colleges, this book outlines different forms of assessment, highlights their purposes, and provides practical guidelines to their implementation. Areas covered include: planning an assessment strategy, diagnosing learners' needs, assessing competence and transferable skills, recording...
New forms of assessment and new learning programmes require teachers to be more flexible in their approach. NVQS, GNVQS, the Accreditation of Prior Le...
Schools in numerous countries around the world have become key sites for interventions designed to enhance the emotional well-being of children and young people, offering new forms of pedagogy and curriculum knowledge informed in ad hoc and eclectic ways by various strands of psychology, counselling and therapy. Responding to C. Wright Mills' famous injunction for a 'sociological imagination', this unique inter-disciplinary collection of papers explores ideologies and imperatives that frame contemporary education policy and practice around emotional well-being, ideas and assumptions about...
Schools in numerous countries around the world have become key sites for interventions designed to enhance the emotional well-being of children and yo...
