1st Edition

From Testing to Productive Student Learning Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings

By David Carless Copyright 2011
280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between testing and learning from alternative perspectives to... Read more
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Biography

David Carless is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong.

"This book is well organized and clear so a reader can follow right along – and wants to do so."Teachers College Record

"Taken as a whole, the book helps researchers and those working with teachers to work realistically and pragmatically in the socio-cultural contexts they are subjected to but also help to shape. It also illuminates the need to encourage teachers to ask critical questions about the nature of learning and engagement that formative and summative assessment encourages, and discourages, and the forms of skill and knowledge that assessment opens access to or denies." Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice