1st Edition

Assessment of Student Achievement

By Gavin T.L. Brown Copyright 2018
160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic high-stakes testing and examination. Written by a leading expert on assessment, this book... Read more
  1. Purposes and functions of assessment
  2. Embedding assessment within curriculum, teaching, and learning
  3. Classroom Assessment--Teacher judgement
  4. Involving students in assessment
  5. Feedback, Grading, & Reporting
  6. Objectively-scored assessments
  7. Scores and Statistics

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Biography

Gavin T. L. Brown is Professor and Director of the Quantitative Data Analysis and Research Unit in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

"This is a text that many of us have been waiting for. Brown adopts a balanced approach to discussing the assessment of student achievement. By focusing on how people interact with assessment at deep, often personal levels, he delves into territory that every teacher and student must face: how do I feel about assessment and what does that mean? This book enhances the discourse around assessment through topics, examples, and criticality that speak to the needs of modern educators."

---Christopher Charles Deneen, Assistant Professsor of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore