Assessment and Learning

John Gardner

SAGE, Dec 7, 2011 - Education - 312 pages

Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning.

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning, practice-based theory on assessment for learning, and formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners.

With a strong list of existing and new contributors, this second edition has been updated to include the latest work on assessment. Readers will find research-informed insights from a wide variety of international contexts. It features:

- New chapters on e-assessment, the learner′s perspective on assessment and learning and the influence of assessment on how we value learning

- Teacher-friendly assessment topics

- Practical examples and chapter summaries throughout

This book is useful to teacher educators and researchers on postgraduate courses in education, teaching, learning and assessment.

John Gardner is a professor of education at Queens University Belfast, and President of the British Educational Research Association.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part 1 Purposes and Practice: 9
• 2 Assessment for Learning in the Classroom: 11
• 3 Professional Learning as a Condition for Assessment for Learning: 33
• Scaling Up Professional Development for Formative Assessment: 49
• Challenges for Assessment: 72
• 6 On the Relationship Between Assessment for Formative and Summative Purposes: 87
• 7 Quality Assessment Practice: 103
• Part 2 Impact: 123
• The Learners Perspective: 125
• A SocioCultural Understanding of Tensions in Vocational Education: 140
• The Experience of Selected OECD Countries: 157
• 11 The Role of Assessment in Developing Motivation for Learning: 171
• Part 3 Theory: 185
• Problems and Possibilities: 187
• 13 Developing a Theory of Formative Assessment: 206
• Part 4 Validity and Reliability: 231
• 14 Validity in Formative Assessment: 233
• 15 The Reliability of Assessments: 243
• 16 Validity Purpose and the Recycling of Results from Educational Assessments: 264
• Concluding Remarks: 277
• A Compelling Conceptualization: 279
• Name Index: 287
• Subject Index: 290

About the author

Professor John Gardner (PhD MSc PGCE BSc FBCS CITP CEng AcSS FCIEA) is Deputy Principal (Education and Students) at the University of Stirling. His main research and teaching interests include policy and practice in all sectors of education, particularly in relation to assessment and information technology.He has over 120 academic publications and has authored or co-authored seven books, the most recent being: Assessment and Learning (2012, Sage), Developing Teacher Assessment (2010, McGraw-Hill/Open University) and The Classroom X-Factor (2011, Routledge).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Assessment and Learning
• Editor: John Gardner
• Edition: 2, unabridged
• Publisher: SAGE, 2011
• ISBN: 1446290247, 9781446290248
• Length: 312 pages
• Subjects: Education / Teaching / General; Education / Testing & Measurement