Assessment In The Classroom: Constructing And Interpreting Texts / Edition 1

by George Cunnningham

Overview

Educational assessment, at one time a relatively uncontroversial subject, is now riven by a diversity of views. The most crucial division is between those who continue to believe in the effectiveness of objective assessment techniques and those who favour alternative methods. This book presents an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and rationales for both.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750707336
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/1997
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Assumptions and philosophies; technical basics of assessment; test construction methodologies; how to construct objective tests; how to construct short answer and essay tests; how to construct alternative assessments; how to assign grades; the use of standardised achievement tests; the ethics of educational assessment.

Editorial Reviews

'The book provides a very useful resource to any odychologist involved in INSET on assessment, or faced with helping a school make sense of its own assessment information.' - Educational Psychology in Practice

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