Changing Educational Assessment: International Perspectives and Trends

✍ Scribed by Patricia Broadfoot; Roger Murphy; Harry Torrance

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the impact of assessment on all areas of education, from teaching skills to policy-making. The contributors take a global perspective to spotlight the common problems facing teachers and students, policy-makers and politicians through the world as they seek to reconcile issues of equity and national development, educational imperatives and finite state resources. The contributions discuss the changing role of assessment and public examinations, and consider such specific issues as the development of a market economy in educational provision, the difficulties of measuring standards in international studies, and accreditation of absolute rather than relative competencies.

✦ Table of Contents

CHANGING EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT
International perspectives and trends
Copyright
Changing educational assessment
International perspectives and trends
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
I
Comparative perspectives on educational assessment
1 The role of assessment, re-examined in international context
2 Trends in the assessment of teaching and learning: educational and methodological perspectives
3 Reshaping the standards agenda: from an Australian's perspective of curriculum and assessment
4 National assessment: a comparison of English and American trends
5 Possibilities and limitations in cross-national comparisons of educational achievement
II
Comparative perspectives on public examinations
6 Trade-offs in examination policies: an international comparative perspective
7 Examination systems in Africa
8 The introduction of continuous assessment systems at secondary level in developing countries
9 Exam questions: a consideration of consequences of reforms to examining and assessment in Great Britain and New Zealand
10 Bring your grandmother to the examination: Te Reo O Te Tai Tokerau Project, New Zealand
11 The GCSE: promise vs. reality
III
Selection, certification and the accreditation of competence
12 University entrance examinations in China: a quiet revolution
13 Learning motivation and work: a Malaysian perspective
14 Assessment, certification and the needs of young people: from badges of failure towards signs of success
15 Beyond commissions and competencies: European approaches to assessment in information technology
Index