Designing Quality Assessment Feedback Practices in Schools

Dr Rachel Goh

ISBN 9789813130265

Read an excerpt of Chapter 1 What should assessment feedback do for students' learning? Big ideas of effective feedback. Click here.

To get a copy, contact Mr Jonathan Ng from Edumart Resource 9694 5739 

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Editors: Leong Wei Shin, Kelvin Tan and Cheng Yuanshan (2015)

The book is a core reading for several NIE assessment courses. It covers an ambitious array of assessment issues and ideas, by addressing central and recurring assessment practices and challenges from diverse perspectives.

The chapters include:

• Purposes and Ethics of Classroom Assessment

• Crafting Assessment Items

• Assessment Rubrics for Learning

• Item Analysis

• Assessment in Non-Cognitive Domains

• Assessing 21st-Century Skills

• Technology and Assessment

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Editor: Kelvin Tan (2020)

Rubrics offer concrete artefacts of what schools evaluate to be of merit, and what educators and schools value to be worth rewarding. Assessment Rubrics Decoded offers insights into a myriad of issues that affect, and are affected by, the construction of merit in students’ learning and the articulation of (underlying) educational ideologies in the assessment of student achievement. Designed for both students and teachers – who should have parity of involvement in developing and using rubrics – this book covers the problematic issues of assessment in schools while offering readers practical solutions to navigating the ensuing tensions and dilemmas. The notion that rubrics may hinder assessment transparency is also discussed, with examples, to warn against uncritical use of rubrics that may discipline rather than help learners. The perspective of a school leader in providing assessment leadership to rubrics usage across a school is included for extending awareness of rubrics beyond classroom contexts. This provides an informed approach for teachers to understand the stakes and complexities involved in judging learning, and learners, whilst offering concrete options and suggestions to consider. This book will be a valuable resource for classroom teachers, school leaders, teacher educators and researchers interested in the field of assessment rubrics.

https://doi-org.libproxy.nie.edu.sg/10.4324/9780429022081 

Author: Tay Hui Yong (2018)

This first title of the series on Assessment in Schools: Principles in Practice aims to make assessment theory accessible by explaining its implications and applications in practice, providing guidance on designing and implementing quality assessment practices, and giving authentic examples from current practices. Editors of this series include Dr Tay, A/P Kelvin Tan and Prof Valentina Klenowski of Queensland University of Technology, Australia. This book seeks to answer the following questions: What is Authentic Assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or 'alternative assessment'? How can authentic assessment support learner-centred education, especially when a performance-oriented culture favours pen-and- paper examinations?

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https://doi-org.libproxy.nie.edu.sg/10.4324/9781315179131 

Editors: Kelvin Tan, Koh Kim Hong, and Tay Hui Yong (2008)

Authentic assessment has the potential to overcome the limits of traditional testing. Many schools have emphasized the importance of authentic assessment practices. Yet little is known about the different types of authentic assessment methods that can be used effectively to enhance students learning and promote the achievement of multi-dimensional outcomes in the classroom. This book seeks to make a clear introduction to the concepts and principles of authentic assessment. It also demonstrates different types of authentic assessment methods that can be used to assess students multi-dimensional learning outcomes in a variety of disciplines and grade levels. The book can serve as a practical guide for teachers to reflect on their own assessment practices in schools, and to begin designing authentic assessment for enhancing students learning in innovative ways. 

Editor: Kelvin Tan (2010)

Editor: Kelvin Tan (2007)

A qualitative approach to assessment emphasizes the holistic nature of assessment and learning. Qualitative alternative assessment requires us to look for concepts and tools that can describel what connections between different types of knowledge mean and how we can differentiate better or poorer ways of connecting knowledge. This book seeks to introduce and suggest different qualitative ways to assess students in a variety of disciplines and levels. It serves as a practical guide for teachers in Singapore to begin designing alternative assessment using the SOLO Taxonomy and the Patchwork Assessment method.

Editors: Kelvin Tan , Mary Anne Heng , and Christina Lim-Ratnam (2017)

This book focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools. School leadership has focused primarily on first-order change involving school leaders or principals. This book seeks to put the spotlight on second-order change that involves curriculum leadership and professional development support on the part of middle leaders for more sustainable and long-term change in teaching and learning that will influence what happens in classrooms. With timely and thought-provoking contribution from authors who pursue a range of scholarly interests in multiple educational settings, the book is guided by several underlying questions:

• How might we re-envision curriculum leadership so that it addresses both local and global concerns and aspirations?

• How might we better grasp how middle leaders understand and respond to the pressures of educational reform initiatives?

• How might middle leaders transform pressures into possibilities?

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