Assessment Reform in Education - nieuw boek

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789400707290
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9400707290
Verschijningsjaar: 2011
Uitgever: Springer-Verlag
250 Bladzijden
Taal: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9789400707290

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Auteur van het boek: berry, adamson joy, stanford bradley, bob adamson

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Gegevens van de uitgever

Auteur: Rita Berry; Bob Adamson
Titel: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects; Assessment Reform in Education - Policy and Practice
Uitgeverij: Springer; Springer Netherland
216 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 2011-04-07
Dordrecht; NL
Taal: Engels
139,09 € (DE)
143,00 € (AT)
165,50 CHF (CH)
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EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Pädagogik/Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik; Pädagogik: Prüfungen und Beurteilungen; Verstehen; APL; assessment; assessment for learning; assessment reform; examinations; B; Assessment and Testing; Educational Policy and Politics; Teaching and Teacher Education; International and Comparative Education; Curriculum Studies; Education; Bildungsstrategien und -politik; Lehrerausbildung; Bildungssysteme und -strukturen; Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung; BC

This book examines the tensions, challenges and outcomes (intended and unintended) of assessment reform arising at the interface of policy and implementation, and implementation and student learning. The book reviews the experiences insights gained from research, and identifies the facilitators and hindrances to effective change. It reflects current thinking of assessment and provides the readers with ample background information of assessment development in many countries including USA, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Author Index. Subject Index. Foreword. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. List of Figures. Contributors .

Part 1 Assessment Reform Experiences.- Rita Berry and Bob Adamson.- Mary James.- Jim Flaitz.- Rita Berry.- Val Klenowski.- Kelvin Tan.- Rita Berry-. Part 2 Issues in the Spotlight.- John Gardner, Wynne Harlen, Louise Hayward and Gordon Stobart.- Eleanore Hargreaves.- Alice Chow and Pamela Leung.- David Scott.- Richard Daugherty, Paul Black, Kathryn Ecclestone, Mary James and Paul Newton. Hak Ping Tam and Yu-Jen Lu.- Bob Adamson.

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Hong Kong Institute of Education. She obtained her doctoral title from the University of Exeter UK but her teaching qualifications (main stream and slow learners) were obtained in Hong Kong. Dr Berry has extensive experience in teaching and has worked in schools and universities in the UK and Hong Kong. She is involved in many external and internal funded research projects and publishes widely in the area of assessment, learner autonomy, curriculum, and teaching education. Dr Berry develops and coordinates modules and programmes. She provides consultancy services and offers various kinds of professional upgrading training for teachers in and outside Hong Kong. Her research interests include assessment FOR/AS learning, classroom and school-based assessment, curriculum development and implementation, as well as autonomous learning and learning strategies.

is a Professor at Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he is Head of the Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning. Prior to this, he was Head of the Curriculum and Instruction and the Director of Graduate Programmes. He has worked in schools, colleges and universities in France, mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia and the United Kingdom, before assuming his current position at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in September 2006. Prof Adamson is a former Honorary Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, and Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong. He has carried out consultancies for the People’s Education Press, China; Ohana Foundation, California; and UNICEF. Prof Adamson has published extensively in the field of curriculum studies, with a particular focus on English language teaching and comparative education.

Editor Rita Berry Co-editor Bob Adamson

of the book. The chapters in this section analyze the origins/causes and discuss complexities, tensions, dilemmas and/or possibilities associated with the issue as well as setting out the implications of the issue for the future of assessment reform, and possible ways forward.

assessment reform experiences issues in the spotlight,
Is the first work that has brought together the perspectives, practices, and national policies related to assessment and assessment reform Comparative approach to recent assessment movements in the Eastern and Western world Examines the tensions, challenges and outcomes (intended and unintended) of assessment reform arising at the interface of policy and implementation, and implementation and student learning