Assessing Technology - Couverture souple

Kimbell, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335197817 ISBN 13 : 9780335197811

Editeur : Open University Press, 1997

Synopsis

* How did the development of assessment practices influence the emerging technology curriculum?

* How does practice in the UK compare to practice in the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia?

For thirty years the UK has been evolving a distinctive technology curriculum. In part one of this book Richard Kimbell explores the thorny issues of assessment that have been raised by - and that helped to define - the technology curriculum in the UK. Richard writes as an 'insider' who was closely involved in the evolution of GCSE, in the battles that characterised the development of national curriculum assessment, and in the single biggest research venture in the assessment of technology - the Assessment of Performance Unit project of 1985-91. He analyses the successes and the mistakes and brings these together (in chapter 6) into a series of lessons that we should have learned about technology and about assessment.

In part two, Richard presents four vignettes of curriculum and assessment practice in technology from the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia. In each case the education system, the technology curriculum and its associated assessment practices are outlined. Thereafter - in the final chapter, Richard brings together the lessons learned in the UK with those that might reasonably be learned from practice in the four case study nations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Kimbell has taught technology in schools and been course director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses of teacher education. He directed the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) research project in design and technology, and in 1990 he founded the Technology Education Research Unit at Goldsmiths College London where he was appointed Professor of Technology Education. He has published widely, including work commissioned by the department of education, the Congress of the United States, UNESCO and NATO. He has written and presented television programmes and regularly lectures internationally.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335197817
• ISBN 13: 9780335197811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible