Educational assessment serves many purposes - selection for further education and employment; monitoring the performance of educational systems; providing diagnostic feedback on the processes of learning. Throughout the world, and in all these ways, more is constantly being demanded of assessment systems. Yet these roles are not always in harmony. Conflicts stem from the wide range of interest groups involved; within given societies, but also, and increasingly, involving the outside world as well. This book explores global and cross-national influences on assessment systems and their likely development. It combines comparative and general analyses with in-depth accounts of a wide range of countries, including those in political and economic transition. Explicit connections are made between general issues and specific cases. "Assessment in Transition: Learning, Monitoring and Selection in International Perspective" explores the factors determining the nature of assessment systems and reform, and the increasing prominence and importance of educational assessment. It provides accounts of the roles of assessment in a range of national contexts. It examines the tensions between the roles of assessment, and how far these are or could be resolved. It is unique in its sustained analysis of emerging international trends, its treatment of national systems and the effects of international agencies' activities, and in applying theories drawn from economics, politics, sociology, statistics and psychology to the subject.

Assessment in Transition: Learning, Monitoring and Selection in International Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Wolf, A.

Little, A

A. Little, Little

Social Sciences

Emerald Publishing

Competence-based assessment is the cornerstone of the UK Government's reforms of vocational training and of non-academic, full-time education post-16. Australia has adopted similar policies, and there is considerable interest in the notion of 'competence' in both Europe and North America.Alison Wolf describes the main characteristics of the competence-based approach as it has emerged in the UK, and traces its origins in American experimental programmes of the 1970s. The arguments for the approach are discussed in detail.She then analyses the theoretical assumptions which competence-based assessment shares with the criterion-referenced movement as a whole, and synthesizes the growing body of evidence on implementation. Finally, she reviews the prospects for competence-based awards, and offers some conclusions on what is essential to a competence-based approach.Alison Wolf is a Reader in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

COMPETENCE-BASED ASSESSMENT CL (Assessing Assessment)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Open University

Essentials of Scientific Method (Routledge Revivals)

History

Routledge

Essentials of Logic (Routledge Revivals)

Philosophy

<p>Originally published in 1926, this book is an exploration of the essentials of logic: the study of the general conditions of valid inference. The main aim of logic is not to teach people to reason correctly, but to explain what happens when they do reason correctly, and why some reasoning is not correct, and this book contains chapters examining judgment and terms; categorical propositions and their implications; and deduction and syllogism.</p>

Key to Exercises in Logic and Scientific Method (Routledge Revivals)

Science & Math

Higher Education in Nazi Germany was first published in 1944, when it was apparent that Germany was likely to lose the war. Developing themes that were to become commonplace in the analysis of totalitarian regimes, it provides an account of how higher education became a means of both installing and re-enforcing the dominant state ideology.

Higher Education in Nazi Germany (RLE Responding to Fascism: Or Education for World Conquest

Reference

Higher Education in Nazi Germany

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Children's Books

Scieszka, Jon

Animals

Turtleback Books

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