Conceptions of assessment : understanding what assessment means to teachers and students /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers,
2008
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTANDING WHAT ASSESSMENT MEANS TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS; CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTANDING WHAT ASSESSMENT MEANS TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTIONS; TERMINOLOGY; CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCEPTIONS; Systematic or Atomistic?; Common Characteristics; Learning and Change; CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT; TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT; Improvement; School Accountability; Student Accountability; Irrelevance; Empirical Research; STUDENTS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT; Assessment Improves Achievement and Learning.
- Assessment Makes Students AccountableAssessment is Irrelevant; Assessment is Enjoyable; RELATED CONCEPTIONS IN EDUCATION; CONCEPTIONS OF TEACHING; CONCEPTIONS OF LEARNING; CONCEPTIONS OF CURRICULUM; TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF EFFICACY; INTEGRATION OF CONCEPTIONS; CONTEXTS OF RESEARCH: EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND; NEW ZEALAND CONTEXT; School Administration; Curriculum; Teaching and Learning; Assessment; Summary; QUEENSLAND CONTEXT; Curriculum; Teaching and Learning; Assessment; New Basics; SUMMARY; RESEARCH METHODS FOR INVESTIGATING CONCEPTIONS; SURVEY METHODS; Response Scale.
- Response FormatSampling; DATA ANALYSIS; Missing Data; Factor Analysis; Exploratory Factor Analysis of Factor Scores from Multiple Inventories; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Multivariate Statistics; Practical Significance-Effect Size; Multi-Dimensional Scaling; Cluster Analysis; INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT; Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment; Teachers' Conceptions of Teaching; Teachers' Conceptions of Learning; Teachers' Conceptions of Curriculum; Teachers' Conceptions of Teacher Efficacy; Students' Conceptions of Assessment; Academic Performance: Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning.
- TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENTNEW ZEALAND; Participants; Results; Inter-Factor Correlations; Strength of Agreement with Conceptions of Assessment; Distribution of Teachers by Agreement Levels; The Effect of Teacher and School Characteristics on Strength of Agreement; QUEENSLAND; Participants; Results; Understanding Queensland Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment; Strength of Conceptions; DISCUSSION; STUDENTS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT WITH GERRIT H.F. HIRSCHFELD, UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, GERMANY; STUDENTS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS; Study One; Study Two; RESULTS; Study One.
- Study TwoDISCUSSION; INTEGRATION OF TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT, TEACHING, LEARNING, CURRICULUM, AND EFFICACY; CONFIRMING TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF TEACHING, LEARNING, CURRICULUM, AND TEACHER-EFFICACY; Teaching Perspectives; Conceptions of Learning; Conceptions of Curriculum; Conceptions of Teacher Efficacy; Summary; INTEGRATING VARIOUS TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS; Patterns in Conceptions-How Scale Scores Related to Each Other; Patterns in People-How Teachers Related to Each Other; CONCLUSION; IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS; IMPLICATIONS; Assessment Policy and Practice.
