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53 interesting ways to assess your students offers reflective practitioners in professional and higher education practical ways to develop broad, flexible assessment repertoires. The 53 suggestions are designed to support both assessment of learning and assessment for learning. Topics include written tasks, examinations, problem-based activities, live and authentic forms of assessment, assessment over different timescales, interpersonal aspects - such as group work, student involvement, and feedback - and quality assurance.

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This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and cultures. Chapters focus on issues that directly impact the educational lives of teachers, students, parents, and caregivers. Importantly, the confluence of assessment practices and community...

Pitfalls of Scholarship offers an array of reflections on higher education. It considers the humanities and the vocational and scientific/technological side of the university from the vantage-point of an Islamic studies scholar in 21st century American academy.

Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards understanding and responding effectively to the multifaceted challenges encountered today by professionals working in dynamic complexity. The author applies a sociomaterial examination to...

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s. Particularly in high-stakes contexts, it is clear that fairness should be a major concern to both the test developers, and to those being tested, given that the fairness of a test is so intertwined with its validity. "

Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment "aims to shed more light on the issue and bring to sight some of the ways in which test fairness can be addressed. The contributions, written by some of the most prominent figures in educational assessment,...

Dieses systematische Review gibt einen Uberblick uber nationale und internationale Assessmentpraxis und bietet eine umfassende und exklusive Informationsgrundlage. Im Auftrag des BMBF haben die AutorInnen eine Synopse zum aktuellen Stand der nationalen und internationalen Forschung zur Erfassung von Kompetenzen bzw. Lernergebnissen (learning outcomes) von Studierenden und Hochschulabsolventen in Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen KooperationspartnerInnen erstellt. Der Band gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber weltweit einschlagige Arbeiten aus der letzten Dekade sowie uber aktuelle...

Ausgehend von herkunftsbezogenen Disparitaten im Bildungserfolg und der Diskussion zu besonders hohen Forderquoten fur Kinder aus zugewanderten Familien untersucht Ellen Brodesser ethnische Leistungsunterschiede in Forderschulen. Dabei werden sowohl die unterschiedliche Verfugbarkeit uber bildungsrelevante Kapitalien als auch die Auswirkungen unterschiedlich zusammengesetzter Klassen diskutiert. Besonders aufschlussreich sind die eher untergeordnete Bedeutung sozialer Hintergrundmerkmale bei der Analyse von Leistungsdifferenzen und die Befunde, die gegen eine institutionelle...