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This book discusses competence, teacher competence, and professional error competence of teachers, and emphasizes the need for a training programme that supports the latter. The book starts out by presenting results from previous studies that underline the necessity to train professional error competence of teachers, especially in the field of accounting. The studies analysed include research in the field of accounting, and on the efficacy of teacher training. Next, considerations on training programmes are presented.

a new chapter on assessment extended discussion of metacognition in the classroom critical perspective on what we really know about...

a new chapter on assessment extended discussion of metacognition in the classroom critical perspective on what we really know about...

Across the globe, doctoral education is in the throes of change. Diversification, regulation and proliferation are just a few of the developments that pose major challenges for those supervising doctoral candidates.

The second edition of A Handbook for Doctoral Supervisors has been fully updated to assist doctoral supervisors in understanding and meeting these challenges. The book is split into six key parts:

• the changing contexts of doctoral supervision
• recruiting, selecting and working with doctoral candidates
• supporting the...

When it comes to sizing up America's public schools, test scores are the go-to metric of state policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the "best" schools. Yet ample research indicates that standardized tests are a poor way to measure a school's performance. It is time--indeed past time--to rethink this system, Jack Schneider says.

Beyond Test Scores reframes current debates over school quality by offering new approaches to educational data that can push us past our unproductive fixation on test scores. Using the highly diverse urban school district...

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This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world's leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book's four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT),...

Teaching without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children’s Literacy Learning by Denny Taylor is the second book in Garn Press Women Scholars Series.  This book revisits Taylor’s seminal and influential work based on her Biographic Literacy Profiles Project. Teaching without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children’s Literacy Learning is a timely book that challenges the scientific assumptions of standardized testing in developing effective instruction to meet the literate lives of all students. Through detailed...

The quality of higher education has been recognized around the world as one of the most important parameters for economic and social development. Globalization and the growing diversity of students have necessitated quality improvement initiatives at different institutions. Simply having mission and vision statements about quality is no longer adequate to meet stakeholders' increasing demand for quality. Higher education institutions are striving to achieve higher quality by developing innovative approaches and processes. By exploring quality assurance policies and standards around the...

Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the societal role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems. The field encompasses not only theories and methods, but also a range of proven approaches for taming ecological complexities that drive inequities around the globe.

Calling for a more engaged approach to evaluation Rodney Hopson and Fiona Cram argue that evaluators will make their best mark on the world if their work takes into account evaluation's relevance, the relationships that it enables, and the...