1st Edition

Formative Assessments and Teacher Professional Learning

Edited By Dineke Tigelaar, Douwe Beijaard Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

How can formative assessment be used as a means to support teacher professional learning? This book presents several studies, from different countries, on approaches to formative assessment of teachers, both before they start working, and during their careers. These approaches draw on insights from studies into effective teacher professional development. Together, the chapters in this book... Read more

Introduction: Formative assessment and teacher professional learning Dineke E.H. Tigelaar and Douwe Beijaard

1. Teachers’ use of a self-assessment procedure: the role of criteria, standards, feedback and reflection Migchiel van Diggelen, Perry den Brok and Douwe Biejaard

2. Heuristics diagrams as a tool to formatively assess teachers’ research J.A. Chamizo and A. García-Franco

3. A teacher competence development programme for supporting students’ reflection skills Agaath M. Dekker-Groen, Marieke F. van der Schaaf and Karel M. Stokking

4. Teacher learning through participation in a negotiated assessment procedure Christel P.M. Verberg, Dineke E.H. Tigelaar and Nico Verloop

5. What do we know and where do we go? Formative assessment in developing student teachers’ professional learning of teaching science Pernilla Nilsson

6. Collaborative action research as a tool for generating formative feedback on teachers’ classroom assessment practice: the KREST project Christine Harrison

7. Formative assessment of teachers in the context of an online learning environment Luís Tinoca and Isolina Oliveira

8. Formative assessment of teacher learning: issues about quality, design characteristics and impact on teacher learning Kari Smith

Biography

Dineke Tigelaar is an Assistant Professor and teacher educator at ICLON, Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching, The Netherlands. Her major research interests and publications pertain to teacher assessment and teachers’ professional development.

Douwe Beijaard is a Professor of Professional Learning at the Eindhoven School of Education of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests and publications pertain to the professional identity, development, and assessment of teachers.