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Title: Improving Large-Scale Assessment in Education: Theory, Issues, and Practice
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415894573
ISBN 13: 9780415894579
Binding: paperback
Condition: New

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Large-scale assessments (LSAs) play a growing role in education policy decisions, accountability, and education planning worldwide. This book focuses on central issues that are key components of successful planning, development and implementation of LSAs. The book’s main distinction is its focus on practice- based, cutting-edge research. This is achieved by having chapters co-authored by world-class researchers in collaboration with measurement practitioners. The result is a how-to book whose language is accessible to practitioners and graduate students as well as academics.

No other book so thoroughly covers current issues in the field of large-scale assessment. An introductory chapter is followed by sixteen chapters that each focus on a specific issue. The content is prescriptive and didactic in nature but based on the most recent scientific research. It includes successful experiences, exemplary practices, training modules, interesting breakthroughs or alternatives, and promising innovations regarding large-scale assessments. Finally, it covers meaningful topics that are currently taking center stage such as motivating students, background questionnaires, comparability of different linguistic versions of assessments, and cognitive modeling of learning and assessment.

About the Author

Marielle Simon is Professor in the Department of Psycho-education at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Kadriye Ercikan is Professor of Measurement and Research Methods in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Michel Rousseau is Professor of Education at the Universit� du Qu�bec � Trois-Rivi�res, Canada.

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