1st Edition
Unlocking Assessment Understanding for Reflection and Application
Part 1: Assessment, Values, Learning and Agency 1. Assessment and Values: a Close and Necessary relationship 2. Assessment and Learning 3. Can Assessment Unlock and Open the Doors to Resourcefulness and Agency? Part 2: Assessment for Learning 4. Feedback - the Central Process in Assessment for Learning 5. Questioning and Dialogue 6. Getting to the Core of Learning: Using Assessment for Self-Monitoring and Self-regulation 7. Understanding and Using Assessment Data Part 3: Assessment Issues 8. Quality in Assessment 9. Trusting Teachers' Judgements 10. Technology in the Service of 21st Century Learning and Assessment. Continuing the Exploration
Biography
Sue Swaffield is a lecturer in Leadership and School Improvement in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Throughout her career as a teacher, local authority adviser and university lecturer, assessment development and research has been a major theme. She is a co-author of Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks and Assessement Literacy for Wise Decisions.
'.. this is a book created largely with the end user in mind. Points are made with clarity and not disguised within the seemingly endless verbiage which is often found in textx on this subject'
Kathryn Furness, Teaching and Learning Update, Issue 30 Dec 2009
