The chapters address a variety of thought-provoking themes, including how therapeutic ideas from popular culture dominate social thought and social policies and offer a diminished view of human potential how schools undermine parental ...
The idea that formative assessment or 'assessment for learning' can transform teaching and learning has become a mantra, and optimism in the 1980s and 1990s that outcome-based and competence-based assessment would widen methods and ...
Using case studies from schools and colleges, this book outlines different forms of assessment, highlights their purposes, and provides practical guidelines to their implementation.
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment.
This report critically reviews the literature on learning styles and examines in detail 13 of the most influential models.
In bringing together British and American advocates of behavioural interventions in social and emotional learning alongside critics who draw on historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives, it highlights new and important debates ...
This guide clarifies different principles, purposes and practices and points to other literature and research that might be useful to professionals who have to make sense of it.
This book provides practical ideas for teachers of adult literacy, language and numeracy in their day to day work of lesson preparation, teaching and assessment.
This guide shows why organizations need an assessment strategy to raise the quality and flexibility of the assessment they provide for learners.