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Nov 10, 2022 · Educational assessment plays a vital role in the quality of student learning experiences, teacher instructional activities, and evaluation of curriculum, school quality, and system performance. Assessments act as a lever for both formative improvement of teaching and learning and summative accountability evaluation of teachers, schools, and administration.
- Educational System Monitoring
- School Evaluation
- Teacher Evaluation
- Student Assessment
sometimes also called education system evaluation, concerns the evaluation of an education system to provide accountability information to the public, and to inform policies aiming to improve educational processes and outcomes. The unit of evaluation can be either a national education system or a subnational education system. In the present chapter...
refers to judgments on the quality and effectiveness of schools. The evaluation may be implemented by a school inspectorate, any other administrative body, or the school itself. School evaluation concentrates on key processes within school, often in association with an analysis of student outcomes. It also takes into account input variables such as...
also known as teacher appraisal, refers to judgments on the performance of teachers. The evaluation of teachers is subject to two alternative procedures: (1) The formative approach typically includes regular appraisal to gain and maintain registration and accreditation to teach, and for promotion as part of a school’s performance management process...
refers to judgments on individual student progress and achievement of learning goals. It covers classroom-based assessments, including grading by teachers, as well as large-scale external assessments and examinations. It should be noted, however, that measures may be used across areas. For instance, student outcomes, aggregated to the appropriate l...
- Sonja Bayer, Eckhard Klieme, Nina Jude
- 2016
Feb 3, 2021 · Diversifying assessment usually involves educators changing a more familiar assessment to a different approach. However, an extension of diversification is where educators may give students a choice between two or more assessments in the same module (Garside et al., 2009; Mogey et al., 2019; O’Neill, 2011, 2017).
- Geraldine O’Neill, Lisa Padden
- 2021
Feb 9, 2019 · The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2009) emphasizes the importance of including a range of stakeholders in teacher assessment such as “parents, students, teachers, school leaders, teacher unions, educational administrators and policy makers in the development and implementation of teacher evaluation and assessment processes” (p. 4).
- Gail Richmond, María del Carmen Salazar, Nathan Jones
- 2019
Apr 19, 2020 · Assessment for learning (AfL) and differentiated instruction (DI) both imply a focus on learning processes and affect student learning positively. However, both AfL and DI prove to be difficult to implement for teachers. Two chemistry and two physics teachers were studied when designing and implementing the formative assessment of conceptual ...
- Hanna B. Westbroek, Lisette van Rens, Ed van den Berg, Fred Janssen
- 2020
Feb 23, 2017 · This blog is part of a four-part series on shifting educational measurement to match 21st century skills, covering traditional assessments, new technologies, new skillsets, and pathways to the future.
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how well an education system is functioning. In most education contexts, assessment is a vital component of any evaluation. It is the process of judging the quality of content and programs offered to a group of students. Teachers usually assess students and use this assessment information to judge the quality of student learning for summative
