Do you need a practical guide to assessment, curriculum and policy? Are you also looking for a book that is firmly grounded in theory and professional practice? Assessment for Education is the perfect guide for students, researchers, academics and teachers. This book makes assessment processes transparent for practitioners, and shows how assessment should align with curriculum and teaching for success in education. It looks at evidence-informed decision-making and the interrelationships between standards, judgment and moderation practice for improved assessment, teacher quality, schools and systems. The book will provide you with: @! knowledge about quality assessment and judgement practice @! understanding of relationships across curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning @! knowledge of the concept of front-ending assessment based on the learner's needs @! an analysis of practitioner judgement approaches and standards @! understanding of the conditions under which teacher assessment can be valid @! principles derived from research of social moderation practices Whether you are studying and researching assessment or working in curriculum and assessment policy, this book will show you how practitioner use of achievement standards can improve learning, equity, social justice and accountability.
Val Klenowski is adjunct professor of education in the School of Cultural and Professional Learning. She has researched curriculum development and assessment practice internationally at all levels from early childhood through to higher education. She is interested in teachers' classroom assessment practices and the interrelationship with learning, curriculum, and pedagogy. She has worked as academic advisor to government departments of education and continues to engage in policy-related research. She is an executive editor of the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice journal and is Research Development Coordinator for the Australian Association for Research in Education.
Foreword by Professor Paul Black Acknowledgements Why Teachers Need to Understand Standards A Sociocultural Perspective of Teachers' Judgement Practice and Learning Alignment and Front-Ending Assessment Moderation and the Use of Standards How Teachers Can Use Standards to Improve Student Learning Sustainable Assessment Cultures Assesment and Digital Literacies Futures-oriented Assessment Index
'This is a very exciting book and should be read widely by anyone who wants a better understanding of the role of assessment in the diverse, globalised, digital societies of the 21st century. Adopting a sociocultural perspective, it moves on from obsessions with measurement, to examine much deeper issues about quality, human judgement, ethics, and negotiated agreement' - Professor Mary James, Univeristy of Cambridge Faculty of Education, President, British Educational Research Association
