Assessment

What's In It For Schools?

By: Jan Winter, Paul Weeden, Patricia Broadfoot

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Hardcover | 18 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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180 Pages

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There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. It offers a user-friendly introduction to what needs to be done and how. It draws on a range of examples to illustrate how learners can be helped to understand what is expected of them and what kind of assessment and feedback best helps them to progress. The central arguments of recent research findings are illustrated by examples of effective assessment practice. Issues discussed include: how assessment can erode self-esteem and motivation how skills of reflection, self-evaluation and personal target setting can impact on learning how far learners of all ages understand what they are required to learn how far students are able to evaluate their own performance how is feedback to promote learning best applied what schools can do in the short, medium and long-term to use assessment to promote more effective learning.

Industry Reviews

'There is much realistic and encouraging advice here.' -Michael Duffy,Times Educational Supplement
'I am sure that those who read this book will be encouraged to think again about assessment and bring to their reading of the book their own experiences to develop the examples it contains.' - Stephen Newman, Journal of Education for Teaching

'As has become a trademark for the 'What's in it for schools' series, this book provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview of assessment issues in and for schools To ensure that the book is practical and useful, the authors have taken pains to present complex information in a friendly and varied way, using graphs and tables, cartoons, lots of sub-headings, extracts from teachers and students' comments, lists of key quotations and suggested activities at the end of each chapter. The book should be of particular interest to both practicing primary teachers and those in training, as well as head teachers working to generate a strong culture of formative and pupil self-assessment in their schools.' - Educational Review

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