Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Evaluation & Assessment

This book provides an overview and discussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education. Chapters include findings from systematic literature reviews and primary research while also presenting a range of practical examples from inspections systems from all over the world. The book provides relevant background materials for Inspectorates of Education who aim to improve...

"This book is written by one of the leading experts on assessment. It contains the deep knowledge and understanding that comes with knowing a subject inside out; but Jan Dubiel's approach is very practical."
-Professor Tina Bruce CBE, University of Roehampton

How we assess our youngest children is a vital part of early years practice.

The new edition of Jan Dubiel's bestselling book offers a clear explanation of the role of assessment in the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and step-by-step guidance for those working...

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving. It brings together researchers in organizational teaming, educational collaboration, tutoring, simulation, and gaming as well as those involved in statistical and psychometric process modelling. This book seeks to channel this expertise towards advances in the measurement and assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills of individuals and teams.

Making mistakes is a critical part of the assessment process--and understanding how to learn from those mistakes helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience. In this practical volume, James McMillan shows why being wrong is an essential part of effective learning and how it can be used by teachers to motivate students and help develop positive achievement-related dispositions. In six concise chapters, the author looks at how mistakes affect students morale, identity, and knowledge, and how teachers can most effectively contextualize supposed failures to help...

Making mistakes is a critical part of the assessment process--and understanding how to learn from those mistakes helps educators and students get the most from their learning experience. In this practical volume, James McMillan shows why being wrong is an essential part of effective learning and how it can be used by teachers to motivate students and help develop positive achievement-related dispositions. In six concise chapters, the author looks at how mistakes affect students morale, identity, and knowledge, and how teachers can most effectively contextualize supposed failures to help...

Many classroom teachers want to use differentiated instruction techniques more effectively to support student learning, but they are unsure where or how to start.

Enter Welda Simousek and Virginia Pickerell, two educators with a combined eighty years of experience working at all levels of public education. Together, Simousek and Pickerell have created "How to Get to the Heart of Differentiation," an indispensible guide to understanding and employing principles of differentiation in the classroom.

Including multiple examples of formative assessments appropriate for all grade levels,...

The research evaluation market is booming. "Ranking," "metrics," "h-index," and "impact factors" are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything -- teachers, professors, training programs, universities -- using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure "research excellence," bibliometrics -- aggregate data on publications and citations -- has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an "objective" measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than "subjective" and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer...