Advancing Methodologies to Support Both Summative and Formative Assessments (Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623965950 ISBN 13: 9781623965952

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education. A variety of methodologies in testing have been developed to obtain and interpret the wealth of assessment outcomes. As assessment goals are getting increasingly multifaceted, new testing methodologies are called for to provide more accessible and reliable information on more complex constructs or processes, such as students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Testing methodologies are needed to extract information from assessments on such complicated skills, in order to advise teachers about certain areas of students that need intervention. It is even a bigger challenge, and a vital mission of today's large-scale assessments, to gain such information from testing data in an efficient manner. For example PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessments consortia are both striving to offer formative assessments through individualized, tailored testing. The book provides state-of-the-art coverage on new methodologies to support tradit ional summative assessment, and more importantly, for emerging formative assessments.

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About the Author

Ying Cheng, University of Notre Dame, USA

Hua-Hua Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623965950
• ISBN 13: 9781623965952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Cheng Ying, Chang Hua-Hua