Testing: Friend or Foe?: Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing

Paul Black

Routledge

"This is a surprising and welcome book... a heartening read that shows the power of assessment for learning and the potential for academics and teachers jointly to put into practice ideas that can improve classroom learning and teaching." TES The starting point of this book was the realisation that research studies worldwide provide hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. The significant improvement in the achievements of the students in this project confirms this research, while providing teachers, teacher trainers, school heads and others leaders with ideas and advice for improving formative assessment in the classroom. Assessment for Learning is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate. Later chapters discuss the problems that teachers encountered when implementing the new practices in their classroom and give guidance for school management and LEAs about promoting and supporting the changes. This book offers valuable insights into assessment for learning as teachers describe in their own words how they turned the ideas into practical action in their schools.

Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice

Education & Teaching

Dylan Wiliam

Chris Harrison

Clare Lee

Bethan Marshall

Open University Press

Schools & Teaching

Offers practical advice on using and improving assessment for learning in the classroom.

Working Inside the Black Box

Reference

English as a Second Language

Non Basic Stock Line

Offers practical advice on using and improving assessment for learning in the classroom.

Inside the Black Box

Inside the Black Box of Assessment

Politics & Social Sciences

Christine Harrison

Jeremy Hodgen

Natasha Serret

Social Sciences

Gl Assessment

THE WORLD IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS. North America is one union; trade in illegal cloning is thriving; and the Biolution has changed all the rules. It s a dark new world in the 21st Century, and National Security Agency profiler Sonny Chaco is fed up with swimming the Net. His latest assignment is Alberto Goya, billionaire CEO of global media giant AztecaNet. The NSA thinks Goya is involved with racketeering, but Chaco knows that he has ties to the Mexican Mafia. Chaco s information is coming from Deja Moriarty, one of AztecaNet s brightest reality producers. Deja wonders if she s really helping her country, while Chaco seriously questions his feelings for his sexy informant. Just when Chaco thinks he s got the goods on Goya and is ready to pounce, his superior assigns him to investigate a mysterious and powerful man who has appeared on the grid. It s Chaco s first field assignment, but everything goes sideways when he discovers that Deja knows the mystery man. AztecaNet s head of security is soon on to Chaco and Deja, and there s nothing he won t do to stop them from bringing down his boss. Armed with only his wits and a cast of unlikely accomplices, Chaco soon realizes that the mystery man isn t just a threat to the nation...but the world.

The Presence

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Novel Instincts

Deep in the basement of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Building, Dr. William Kanter is on the brink of developing a technology that will replace the MRI. Yet the images captured aren't of his brain, they're his memories. And they only take up only a small portion at the end of the scan. What Kanter discovers throughout the rest of the scan could rock the very foundation of humanity. Across campus, child psychologist Dr. Trenna Anderson is reviewing a disturbing home video of a young Wisconsin farm boy who suffers from night terrors. After witnessing the boy become a Nazi prison guard, L.A. crack whore and Inuit native, Anderson suspects the eight-year-old may have multiple personality disorder. But when conventional psychotherapy fails, Anderson reluctantly meets with a maverick inventor named Kanter who's rumored to have created a revolutionary machine that might be the boy's only hope. Kanter thinks his invention will help mankind, but there are forces at work that want to destroy a machine that threatens to expose the world's most precious beliefs. Soon Kanter and Anderson find themselves embroiled in a deadly and dangerous world of government espionage, corporate greed and religious fundamentalism. Is Kanter's invention capable of changing the world? And if so, at what cost?

The Samsara Effect

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Novel Instincts Publishing

Now, for the first time, the complete Tels three volume set in one book! It's the near-future. A new revolution has spread across the human landscape. The Biolution and its flood of technology have changed almost every aspect of life. Also changed, is the face of terrorism. Throughout his life, Jonathan Kortel always sensed he was different, but never imagined how different, until two rival factions of a secret group called the Tels approach him out of the shadows of government. He has a unique gift that could change his life, and possibly the world, forever. This is his story. A battle for the loyalty of a man who could change the course of human evolution. And the struggle inside this man as he comes to terms with his destiny. Deeply intriguing and powerfully suspenseful, Paul Black's award-winning series has created a future described as "one of the best science fiction novels" by Marilyn Meredith of Writer's Digest. Part X-Files, part cyber-thriller, Paul Black unveils a dark and compelling view of a world.

The Tels Trilogy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

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