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Title Valuing assessment in science education : pedagogy, curriculum, policy / Deborah Corrigan, Richard Gunstone, Alister Jones, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Contents Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework / Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting -- International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education / Peter J. Fensham -- International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping What Counts in School Science / Alister Jones, Cathy Buntting -- Improving Science Education: Why Assessment Matters / Robin Millar -- Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum / Peter J. Fensham, Léonie J. Rennie -- Aligning Science Curriculum Renewal Efforts and Assessment Practices / Wilmad Kuiper, Elvira Folmer -- Content to be Assessed Across the History of the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- The Influence of Assessment on Moderating Science Teachers' Beliefs and Practices / Deborah Corrigan, Rebecca Cooper -- Issues in Teaching for and Assessment of Creativity in Mathematics and Science / Mike Askew -- Science Teachers' Understanding of the College Entrance Examination in a Climate of National Curriculum Reform in China / Hongming Ma -- Pedagogy in Theory and in Practice: Formative and Summative Assessments in Classrooms and in Systems / Paul Black -- An Assessment Perezhivanie: Building an Assessment Pedagogy for, with and of Early Childhood Science Learning / Marilyn Fleer, Gloria Quiñones -- Classroom Assessment: Making Space for Diversity / Bronwen Cowie -- Formative Assessment as a Cultural Practice: The Use of Written Formative Assessment in Samoan Science Classrooms / Desmond Lee Hang, Beverley Bell -- The Disparity Between Achievement and Engagement in Students' Science Learning: A Case of East-Asian Regions / Jinwoong Song -- Embedding Assessment Within Primary School Science: A Case Study / Angela Fitzgerald, Richard Gunstone -- Formative Assessment in Learning to Teach Science / Pernilla Nilsson, John Loughran -- Changing Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms / Chris Harrison -- Assessment: Where to Next? / Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting
Summary Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning. This book takes a broad and deep view of research involving assessment in science education, across contexts and cultures (from whole countries to individual classrooms) and across forms and purposes (from assessment in the service of student learning to policy implications of system wide assessment). It examines the relationships between assessment, measurement and evaluation; explores assessment philosophies and prac
Analysis Education
Science -- Study and teaching
Educational tests and measurements
Science Education
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
beoordeling
assessment
testen
testing
onderwijs
natuurwetenschappelijk onderwijs
Education (General)
Onderwijs (algemeen)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Science -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation
SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Science -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation
Form Electronic book
Author Corrigan, Deborah.
Gunstone, Richard F.
Jones, Alister.
ISBN 9789400766686
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940076667X
9789400766679