Assessment and Learning (PDF)

By: John R. Gardner

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Synopsis: This new and unique text is a major source of practice-based theory on assessment for learning, a formative assessment approach to support individual development and motivate learners. Key areas covered in the book include the practice of assessment for learning in the classroom and its power to enhance, developing and maintaining motivation for learning, drawing on the key messages from research, the role of assessment for learning in teachers, assessment and theories of learning, using up-to-date research to consider the reliability and validity of assessment and to debunk some of the myths about the reliability of assessments external to the classroom. Assessment policies across the four countries of the UK and selected European countries, with a commentary on the assessment context in the US. The book is a hugely important output from the internationally known Assessment Reform Group (ARG), which is influential in the field of assessment and education policy and practice in the UK, with related developments as far afield as Australia, Hong Kong, the US and Canada. The group carries out research in order to reach policy-makers in government, and also works closely with teachers and local authority staff. Assessment and Learning will prove a very valuable resource for a wide variety of people involved in teaching, learning and assessment whether as practitioners, researchers or policy-makers.