Self-directed Learning Oriented Assessments in the Asia-Pacific

✍ Scribed by Magdalena Mo Ching Mok (auth.), Magdalena Mo Ching Mok (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 439
Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 18
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Asia-Pacific region needs to maximize the benefits of education to enable it to compete in an economic future dominated by innovation, in which assessing student progress must be an empowering rather than delimiting factor. This detailed exposition of the theoretical basis and application tools of self-directed learning-oriented assessment (SLOA) reflects the very latest research championed by the Assessment Research Centre at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Featuring a range of relevant case studies, it explores the varied theoretical issues related to SLOA and offers an integrated view of the system fully in line with the constructivist paradigm of learning which advocates formative rather than summative assessment. Many of the initiatives outlined here are firsts in the region.

SLOA is already being applied in many schools with links to the ARC. It is an approach to assessment that acknowledges the centrality of self-directed learning and which positions assessment as a tool to enable and enhance self-directed learning. It draws on several theories of learning and assessment, including the constructivist notion that learning is best achieved when students take ownership of their educational process, setting their own goals and monitoring their own progress towards those goals. SLOA has been the research and service approach of the ARC since 2005. In the intervening years the centre has developed a number of tools to facilitate SLOA learning and assessment, including vertical ability scales, teacher-friendly computer software and packages for self-directed learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Assessment Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Theory and Practice of Self-Directed Learning Oriented Assessment....Pages 3-22
Assessment, Standards-Referencing and Standard Setting....Pages 23-41
Rapid Dynamic Assessment for Learning....Pages 43-60
Standardized Diagnostic Assessment Design and Analysis: Key Ideas from Modern Measurement Theory....Pages 61-85
Application of the DINA Model Framework to Enhance Assessment and Learning....Pages 87-103
Theory of Self-Directed Learning-Oriented Assessment: A Non-technical Introduction to the Theoretical Foundations and Methodologies of Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment....Pages 105-121
Getting to the Core of Learning: Using Assessment for Self-Monitoring and Self-Regulation....Pages 123-137
Metacognitive Self-Confidence in School-Aged Children....Pages 139-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Using Item Response Theory as a Tool in Educational Measurement....Pages 157-185
A Concurrent-Separate Approach to Vertical Scaling....Pages 187-201
Student-Problem Chart: An Essential Tool for SLOA....Pages 203-221
Using User-Defined Fit Statistic to Analyze Two-Tier Items in Mathematics....Pages 223-233
Dynamic Assessment of Learning Potential....Pages 235-255
Exploiting Computerized Adaptive Testing for Self-Directed Learning....Pages 257-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Learning Assessment Reform in Thailand....Pages 283-296
Concerns of Student Teachers: Identifying Emerging Themes Through Self-Assessment....Pages 297-310
Informing Learning and Teaching Using Feedback from Assessment Data: Hong Kong Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Rasch Measurement....Pages 311-334
Accelerated Approach to Primary School English Education in China: Three Case Studies....Pages 335-357
Physical Education in Higher Education in Hong Kong: The Effects of the Intervention on Pre-service Sports Coaches’ Attitudes Towards Assessment for Learning Used in Sports....Pages 359-392
The Case of St Margaret’s Girls’ College: How SLOA Promotes Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment to Enhance Secondary School Student English Learning....Pages 393-411
Back Matter....Pages 413-433

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Learning & Instruction; Educational Psychology

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