Assessing Children's Learning - Softcover

Drummond, Mary Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843120402 ISBN 13: 9781843120407

Publisher: David Fulton Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

In this second edition, Mary Jane Drummond continues to examine some of the important questions that teachers and other educators ask themselves as they assess children's learning across the curriculum. Updated to keep abreast with changes in assessment, this book comes with an additional end piece that provides analysis of the developments that have taken place over the last ten years.The book offers an alternative to objective, mechanical approaches to assessment and shows the process in which teachers look at children's learning, strive to understand it, and then put their understanding to good use. It invites teachers to consider the choices they make in the process of assessment, and to acknowledge their right, their responsibility and their power to act in the interests of the children.

About this title

Product Description

In this second edition, Mary Jane Drummond continues to examine some of the important questions that teachers and other educators ask themselves as they assess children's learning across the curriculum.

About the Author

Mary Jane Drummond started her career in education in 1966 and taught in a variety of inner-city schools, including four years as the headteacher of an infant school in Sheffield. She worked on the influential Schools Council Project Communication Skills in Early Childhood and in 1985 she became a lecturer at what later became the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, from which she has recently retired. She has a distinguished record in research and evaluation and is the author of a number of studies based on observations of children’s learning in nursery and primary classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843120402
• ISBN 13: 9781843120407
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208