Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards: 1 (Innovation and Change in Professional Education, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402013574 ISBN 13: 9781402013577

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. It addresses relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective and, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches.

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Review

"This edited book of readings jolts us out of traditional habits of mind about assessment... [The authors] explore a new vision of assessment for the new millennium."
Rick Stiggins, Assessment Training Institute, Portland, Oregon
"...This is a book not only an assessment interested audience will find useful and informative, but all educators and educational researchers should use it as an updated and rich resource for their work in the field of education."
Professor Kari Smith, Oranim Academic College, Israel
"Many readers of this book will react to or be challenged by the range and treatment of topics covered, with novel ideas or findings bubbling constantly to the surface. For that reason alone, the volume could be potentially useful as a library acquisition."
D. Royce Sadler, Griffith University

Synopsis

This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. The authors of this book form an international group of distinguished experts in the field of assessment. They address relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective. It is a book which reaches forward and which, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches. Various research studies presented in this book focus on the impact of new modes of assessment and in doing so, they strengthen the links between instruction, learning, and assessment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402013574
• ISBN 13: 9781402013577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 299
• Editor: Segers Mien, Dochy F., Cascallar E.