Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Testing & Measurement

Help maximize your child's chances of acing the COGAT(R) When it comes to gifted test prep, don't risk your son or daughter being unprepared and underperforming on test day.

Your child must be familiar with test material AND be able to focus on test material for longer than the typical 4-5 minute attention span of most young kids. This book offers a chance to do both.

- Ensure your child has sufficient experience in answering the COGAT Level 7(R) nine question types, thanks to the book's 200+ practice questions.

- Make sure (s)he has...

This is a ground-breaking account of one of the most complicated qualification systems in the world. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is predominantly used in the senior secondary school in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its introduction between 2002 and 2004 signalled a seismic shift in assessment practice.

NCEA in Context offers a compelling account of the educational, social, and political forces that shaped New Zealand's assessment landscape in the years before NCEA, through its implementation, to the present day. This book provides a frank analysis of...

Help maximize your child's chances of acing the COGAT(R) When it comes to gifted test prep, don't risk your son or daughter being unprepared and underperforming on test day.

Your child must be familiar with test material AND be able to focus on test material for longer than the typical 4-5 minute attention span of most young kids. This book offers a chance to do both.

- Ensure your child has sufficient experience in answering the COGAT Level 8(R) nine question types, thanks to this book's 190+ practice questions. (Plus, after you purchase...

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the fundamentals of assessment, explanations of its uses,...

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience. With chapters on the fundamentals of assessment, explanations of its uses,...

Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD's educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD's public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d'Agnese argues that PISA is not just an assessment tool, but rather an all-encompassing framework that intends to govern education, schooling, living and society worldwide. This creation of what d'Agnese calls a life-brand raises concerns that education and learning are becoming wares and that, consequently, we...

Since 1994, when many countries ratified the Salamanca Statement on social and educational inclusion, worldwide efforts have been made to include all children in the general school system, and thus reduce exclusion. Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on these seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts. With an examination of the international testing culture currently permeating national school reforms, alongside the international inclusiveness agenda, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to...