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Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Profe…
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of “performance assessment for learning” to the next level. In order to be better equipped to cop…
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- 978-3-319-30064-1
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- XXVI, 473
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- Innovation and Change in Professional Education
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- 374.013 ASS a
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
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Motivational Profiles in TIMSS Mathematics Exploring Student Clusters Across…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
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The Testing and Learning Revolution The Future of Assessment in Education
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.
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- 978-1-137-51996-2
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IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 Assessment Frame…
The International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. ICCS 2016 is a continuation of a study initiated in 2009. This document outlines the framework and assessment design for the ICCS 2016. ICCS 2016 will report on student kn…
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- 978-3-319-39356-8
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- VIII, 97
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- 153.94 IEA
New Perspectives on Curriculum, Learning and Assessment
This book offers a detailed analysis and assessment of the state of education round the world. The argument is made that education and curriculum practices are deficient for two reasons. The first is the adoption by governments, policy-makers and practitioners of a set of knowledge practices that can be broadly characterised as empiricist and technicist, and which has come to dominate how curri…
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- 978-3-319-22830-3
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- XIII, 210
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- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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Validating Technological Innovation The Introduction and Implementation of O…
This book discusses Hong Kong’s use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations. Given that Hong Kong leads the way in OSM innovation, this book has arisen from a recognised need to provide a comprehensive, coherent account of the findings of various separate but linked validation studies of onscreen public examinations in Hong Kong. The authors discuss their experience of the validation…
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- 978-981-10-0434-6
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- 51 b/w illustrations
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Understanding the Nature of Motivation and Motivating Students through Teachi…
This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate courses in Hong Kong. The analysis used an exploratory grounded theory approach and res…
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- 978-981-287-883-0
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Understanding Test and Exam Results Statistically An Essential Guide for Tea…
This book shares the goal of the classic text How to Lie with Statistics, namely, preventing and correcting statistical misconceptions that are common among practitioners, though its focus is on the educational context. It illustrates and discusses the essentials of educational statistics that will help educational practitioners to do this part of their job properly, i.e., without making concep…
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- 978-981-10-1581-6
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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The Design of Learning Experience
This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences. The book seeks to understand how to design how learning occurs, both in the instructional design studio a…
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- 978-3-319-16504-2
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- XII, 292
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- Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations
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