Student perspectives on assessment : what students can tell us about assessment for learning /
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Author / Creator: | McInerney, D. M. (Dennis M.), 1948- |
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Imprint: | Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., ©2009. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Research on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning ; v. 9 Research on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning ; v. 9. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11175676 |
Summary: | Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. However, how students themselves perceive assessments (both high-stakes qualifications and low-stakes monitoring) is not well understood. This volume collects research studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and New Zealand that have deliberately focused on how students in primary, secondary, and tertiary education conceive of, experience, understand, and evaluate assessments. Assessment for learning has assumed that formative assessments and classroom practices would be an unqualified success in terms of student learning outcomes. Making use of a variety of qualitatively interpreted focus groups, observations, and interviews and factor-analytic survey methods, the studies collected in this volume raise doubts as to the validity of this formulation. We commend this volume to readers hoping to stimulate their own thinking and research in the area of student assessment. We believe the chapters will challenge researchers, policy makers, teacher educators, and instructors as to how assessment for learning can be implemented. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781607523543 160752354X 9781607523529 9781607523536 1607523523 1607523531 |