Educational Assessment in the 21st Century: Connecting Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements About the contributors List of figures List of tables Preface Signs of change: Assessment past, present and future Patricia Broadfoot Chapter 1 Framing assessment today for the future: Issues and challenges J. Joy Cumming and Claire M. Wyatt-Smith Part 1 Creativity and innovation in assessment: New skills and capabilities, and changing communication practices Chapter 2 Assessment in the perspective of a social semiotic theory of multimodal teaching and learning Gunther Kress Chapter 3 Transforming K-12 assesment: Integrating accountability testing, formative assessment and professional support Randy Elliot Bennett and Drew H. Gitomer Chapter 4 Assessment issues and new technologies: ePortfolio possibilities Glenn Finger Chapter 5 Towards theorising assessment as critical theory Claire Wyatt-Smith and Stephanie Gunn Part 2 Building social capital: Difference, diversity, social inclusion Chapter 6 Fairness in assessment Caroline Gipps and Chapter 7 Assessment, gender and in/equity Susan M. Brookhart Chapter 8 Assessment, disability, student engagement and responses to intervention Deb Keen and Michael Arthur-Kelly Chapter 9 Assessment challenges, the law and the future J. Joy Cumming Part 3 Assessment in context: Geography, policy and practice Chapter 10 Teachers' use of assessment data Chapter 11 A problematic leap in the use of test data: From performance to inference Chapter 12 Educational assessment in Norway-a time of change Chapter 13 Articulating tacit knowledge through analyses of recordings: Implications for competency assessment in the vocational education and training sector Ann Kelly Chapter 14Defining standards for the 21st century Graham Samuel Maxwell Index