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Stobart, Gordon

 
9780415404747: Testing Times: The Uses and Abuses of Assessment
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ISBN 10 : 0415404746 ISBN 13 : 9780415404747
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This book raises controversial questions about current uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them. It will be of great interest to teaching professionals involved in further study, and to academics and researchers in the field.

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À propos de l'auteur

What do IQ and ability tests really tell us?

Does testing used for accountability undermine learning?

This book argues that assessment shapes how we see ourselves and how we learn. At a time when people are labelled in terms of their ability, learning styles or achievement, the book takes a hard look at the rationale of these labels. It also shows how, in our test driven culture, assessment can often undermine effective learning by encouraging shallow 'for-the-test' learning and by treating test results as an end in themselves.

The author explores how we can develop assessments which generate deeper learning and which can play a constructive role in creating our identities as people and learners.

Examining the purposes and consequences of assessment, Testing Times critically examines high-profile uses such as:

  • IQ and ability testing

  • Multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence

  • Learning styles

  • Accountability testing and credential seeking

  • Formative assessment.

This accessible and provocative book will be of great interest to educational professionals, academics and researchers.

Gordon Stobart is Professor in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is editor of the international journal Assessment in Education and a member of the Assessment Reform Group.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415404746
ISBN 13 
9780415404747
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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