Unlocking Assessment: Understanding for Reflection and Application

by Swaffield; Sue

• ISBN13: 9780415453134
• ISBN10: 0415453135
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-05-14
• Publisher: David Fulton Pub

Summary

Assessment is inextricably linked with learning and teaching, and its profile in British schools has never been higher. Recently the value and importance of formative assessment in supporting learning and teaching has also become widely recognised. Although assessment is a prime concern of anyone involved in education it remains a highly complex field where much controversy and misunderstanding abounds. This book explores the values, principles, research and theories that underpin our understanding and practice of assessment. It also provides practical suggestions and examples, and addresses some key points about the future development of assessment. The book makes accessible complex but crucial ideas and issues, so that teachers can be more confident and proactive in shaping assessment in their classrooms, in ways that support learning and avoid unintentional harmful consequences.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
About the contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
Assessment, values, learning and agency	p. 1
Assessment and values: a close and necessary relationship	p. 3
Assessment and learning	p. 20
Can assessment unlock and open the doors to resourcefulness and agency?	p. 36
Assessment for learning	p. 55
Feedback: the central process in assessment for learning	p. 57
Questioning and dialogue	p. 73
Getting to the core of learning: using assessment for self-monitoring and self-regulation	p. 90
Understanding and using assessment data	p. 105
Assessment issues	p. 121
Quality in assessment	p. 123
Trusting teachers' judgements	p. 138
Technology in the service of twenty-first century learning and assessment	p. 154
Continuing the exploration	p. 173
Index	p. 175
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