Assessment for learning [electronic resource] : putting it into practice / Paul Black ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Black, P. J. (Paul Joseph) [author.]
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Publisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2003Description: vi, 135 p.ISBN: 9780335224296 (e-book) :.Subject(s): Educational tests and measurements | Education | Education | Teaching skills & techniques | Education: examinations & assessmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780335212972Summary: Based on a two-year project involving 36 teachers, this manual offers ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom. It is inspired by research studies worldwide, which provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. "This is a surprising and welcome book... a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teaching."TES The starting point of this book was the realisation that research studies worldwide provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. The significant improvement in the achievements of the students in this project confirms this research, while providing teachers, teacher trainers, school heads and others leaders with ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom.Assessment for Learning is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate. Later chapters discuss the problems that teachers encountered when implementing the new practices in their classroom and give guidance for school management and LEAs about promoting and supporting the changes.This book offers valuable insights into assessment for learning as teachers describe in their own words how they turned the ideas into practical action in their schools.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-130) and index.
Based on a two-year project involving 36 teachers, this manual offers ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom. It is inspired by research studies worldwide, which provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. "This is a surprising and welcome book... a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teaching."TES The starting point of this book was the realisation that research studies worldwide provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. The significant improvement in the achievements of the students in this project confirms this research, while providing teachers, teacher trainers, school heads and others leaders with ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom.Assessment for Learning is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate. Later chapters discuss the problems that teachers encountered when implementing the new practices in their classroom and give guidance for school management and LEAs about promoting and supporting the changes.This book offers valuable insights into assessment for learning as teachers describe in their own words how they turned the ideas into practical action in their schools.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780335212972
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
