Unlocking Assessment: Understanding for Reflection and Application (Unlocking Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138130850 ISBN 13: 9781138130852

Publisher: David Fulton Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Assessment is inextricably linked with learning and teaching, and its profile in British schools has never been higher. Recently the value and importance of formative assessment in supporting learning and teaching has also become widely recognised.

Although assessment is a prime concern of anyone involved in education it remains a highly complex field where much controversy and misunderstanding abounds.

This book explores the values, principles, research and theories that underpin our understanding and practice of assessment. It also provides practical suggestions and examples, and addresses some key points about the future development of assessment. The book makes accessible complex but crucial ideas and issues, so that teachers can be more confident and proactive in shaping assessment in their classrooms, in ways that support learning and avoid unintentional harmful consequences.

About this title

About the Author

Sue Swaffield is a lecturer in Leadership and School Improvement in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Throughout her career as a teacher, local authority adviser and university lecturer, assessment development and research has been a major theme. She is a co-author of Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks and Assessement Literacy for Wise Decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138130850
• ISBN 13: 9781138130852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Swaffield Sue