Advancing Methodologies to Support Both Summative and Formative Assessments

Ying Cheng

ISBN 10: 1623965950 / ISBN 13: 9781623965952

Editore: Information Age Publishing, 2014

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A volume in the Chinese American Educational Researchand Development Association Book SeriesSeries Editor Jinfa Cai, University of DelawareOver the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly importantcomponent of public education. A variety of methodologies in testing have been developed toobtain and interpret the wealth of assessment outcomes. As assessment goals are gettingincreasingly multifaceted, new testing methodologies are called for to provide more accessibleand reliable information on more complex constructs or processes, such as students' criticalthinkingand problem-solving skills.Testing methodologies are needed to extract information from assessments on such complicated skills, in order to advise teachersabout certain areas of students that need intervention. It is even a bigger challenge, and a vital mission of today's large-scaleassessments, to gain such information from testing data in an efficient manner. For example PARCC and Smarter BalancedAssessments consortia are both striving to offer formative assessments through individualized, tailored testing. The book providesstate-of-the-art coverage on new methodologies to support tradit ional summative assessment, and more importantly, for emergingformative assessments.

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• Titolo: Advancing Methodologies to Support Both Summative and Formative Assessments
• Editore: Information Age Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1623965950
• ISBN 13: 9781623965952
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 19 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 529 grammi

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Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education. A variety of methodologies in testing have been developed to obtain and interpret the wealth of assessment outcomes. As assessment goals are getting increasingly multifaceted, new testing methodologies are called for to provide more accessible and reliable information on more complex constructs or processes, such as students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Testing methodologies are needed to extract information from assessments on such complicated skills, in order to advise teachers about certain areas of students that need intervention. It is even a bigger challenge, and a vital mission of today's large-scale assessments, to gain such information from testing data in an efficient manner. For example PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessments consortia are both striving to offer formative assessments through individualized, tailored testing. The book provides state-of-the-art coverage on new methodologies to support tradit ional summative assessment, and more importantly, for emerging formative assessments.