Academic Achievement Assessment: Principles and Methodology

This book consists of introduction to academic achievement assessment, international comparison of academic achievement assessment and reference, as well as theoretical system and practice strategy of academic achievement assessment. The study indicates that the development trends of foreign academic achievement assessment are: establishing a complete education quality monitoring system; paying more attention to the function and value of independent education quality monitoring institution and intermediary organization; the orientation based on the integrated development of students growing more apparent; marching from “evaluation of study” to “evaluation for study”; and placing educational equity in a prominent position. This book is easy to understand and readable for professionals like teachers, educational researchers and particularly those engaged in academic achievement.

Huisheng Tian graduated from Department of Education in Northwest Normal University in 1985, and got PhD from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 1992. Now he is the president of National Institute of Education Sciences and the director of National Center for School Curriculum and Textbook Development Ministry of Education. He is engaged in researches on education policy, curriculum and instruction, educational experiments, the reforms of basic education and training graduates cooperatively. He published more than 100 academic papers, and dozens of books and textbooks. He attended “the first New Century National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project” and earned Special government allowances of the State Council.