Understanding and Applying Assessment in Education (eBook)

Damian Murchan, Gerry Shiel (Autoren)

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2024 | 2., Second Edition
376 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5297-8501-2 (ISBN)

Infos

All teachers are responsible for assessing the children they teach, and the outcomes of any assessment are important for individual learners, schools and wider education systems. Designed as a pragmatic guide for new teachers and those training to teach, this book is your one-stop-shop for understanding assessment in schools. It covers formative and summative approaches used across primary and secondary education, supporting a balanced overview with policy examples drawn from the UK, Ireland and wider international contexts. This updated second edition reflects recent trends in assessment and includes: more balanced coverage across primary and secondary age phases with a broader range of examples across curriculum subject areas a new chapter on the potential of digital assessment for both formative and summative purposes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on assessment in general, and examinations in particular Damian Murchan is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin. Gerry Shiel is a Research Fellow at the Educational Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: Classroom assessment • Evaluation • Formative assessment • GCSEs • PISA tests • primary assessment • school exams • secondary assessment • Standardised testing • Summative assessment • teacher assessment
• ISBN-10: 1-5297-8501-4 / 1529785014
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5297-8501-2 / 9781529785012