Investigating Formative Assessment - Softcover

Torrance, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335197345 ISBN 13: 9780335197347

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Covers various perspectives from the fields of assessment policy development, and theories of learning and the sociology of the classroom. This book explores how the assessment of young children is carried out in classrooms and with what consequences for their understanding of schooling and the development of their learning in particular subjects.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Harry Torrance is Director of the Graduate Research Centre in Education and a Reader in Education at the University of Sussex. He was formerly Research fellow in the Assessment and Evaluation Unit, Southampton University and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia. He has directed several research projects investigating teacher involvement in assessment, and also has extensive experience of curriculum and programme evaluation.Dr John Pryor is a research fellow at University of Sussex Institute of Education. Following graduation from the University of Oxford, he trained as a teacher and spent 18 years as a school teacher, working mostly in the primary sector. During this time he completed a DPhil in Education, part-time, at the University of Sussex. He is currently working with Harry Torrance on an ESRC project to develop formative assessment in primary schools. Other interests include practitioner research and classroom processes.

Review:

"This book stands as an example of high quality research. Published at a time when educational research in the United Kingdom faces substantial attack and critique, it is good to have such work in the public domain." - Andrew Pollard, University of Bristol

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0335197345
• ISBN 13: 9780335197347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192