By Gordon Stobart
ISBN-10: 0415404746
ISBN-13: 9780415404747
ISBN-10: 0415404754
ISBN-13: 9780415404754
Assessment dominates our lives yet its strong intentions frequently produce damaging outcomes. An instance that's principal to this booklet is how present sorts of overview inspire shallow ‘for-the-test’ studying. it really is actual to assert that because the quantity of overview raises, self assurance in what it represents is diminishing. This ebook seeks to reclaim evaluation as a confident task that could motivate deeper studying. to do that the aim, and fitness-for–purpose, of checks need to be transparent.
Gordon Stobart seriously examines 5 matters that at the moment have high-profile prestige:
- intelligence checking out
- learning abilities
- accountability
- the ‘diploma disorder’
- formative evaluate
Stobart explains that those shape the foundation for the argument that we needs to generate exams which, in flip, motivate deep and lifetime learning.
This booklet increases debatable questions on present makes use of of evaluation and offers a framework for knowing them. will probably be of serious curiosity to educating execs all in favour of extra learn, and to lecturers and researchers within the field.
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