
Developing Teachers' Assessment Capacity
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2018
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-1-138-49303-2 (ISBN)
Description
Given the academic benefits of assessment-driven teaching, and the growing accountability context of educational systems around the world, there is a rapidly developing need to educate teachers in effectively using assessments to promote, monitor, and report on student learning. However, assessment has historically been a neglected area in teacher education programmes, and empirical research has consistently shown assessment as an area of challenge for many teachers. While there is an increased focus across teacher education and professional literature on enhancing the assessment capacity of educators, there remains little empirical research on innovative and data-based strategies to effectively achieve this goal. The purpose of this text is to consolidate existing research on assessment education and to provoke innovative and effective approaches to educating teachers and teachers-in-training about assessment. Given the dearth of relevant research, this text also considers the matter of retention and extension of initial assessment learning into teaching careers. Combined, the articles in this text provide a foundation for novel thinking about developing teachers' assessment capacity from pre-service to in-service contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-49303-2 (9781138493032)
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Persons
Christopher DeLuca is an Associate Professor in Educational Assessment at the Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. His research examines the complex intersections of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment as operating within evolving frameworks of educational accountability and standards-based teaching and learning. His work focuses primarily on developing and enhancing educators' assessment capacity to better support positive student learning experiences and outcomes.
Sandra Johnson has extensive experience in teaching, research and assessment. She has served on government advisory committees on assessment, and provided assessment support and training for several international projects. She is a founding director of Assessment Europe, a founding member and Fellow of the Association for Educational Assessment - Europe, an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Bristol's Graduate School of Education, and an Honorary Member of the European Educational Research Association's Network 9 (Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement).
Sandra Johnson has extensive experience in teaching, research and assessment. She has served on government advisory committees on assessment, and provided assessment support and training for several international projects. She is a founding director of Assessment Europe, a founding member and Fellow of the Association for Educational Assessment - Europe, an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Bristol's Graduate School of Education, and an Honorary Member of the European Educational Research Association's Network 9 (Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement).
Content
Introduction: Developing assessment capable teachers in this age of accountability 1. Student teachers' appraisal of the importance of assessment in teacher education and self-reports on the development of assessment competence 2. Exploring the challenge of developing student teacher data literacy 3. Integrating assessment for learning in the teacher education programme at the University of Oslo 4. Assessment for equity: learning how to use evidence to scaffold learning and improve teaching 5. A rubric to track the development of secondary pre-service and novice teachers' summative assessment literacy 6. Professional controversies between teachers about their summative assessment 7. Standards of practice to standards of evidence: developing assessment capable teachers 8. Scaling up, writ small: using an assessment for learning audit instrument to stimulate site-based professional development, one school at a time 9. Developing teachers' capacities in assessment through career-long professional learning