Overview

Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading.

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The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues central to the practice of assessment. Teachers, administrators, and other educators are exposed to the critical aspects of assessment and to the core issues of future decisions concerning the roles and directions of assessment in schools. .The books could be effectively used as a supplement to a more comprehensive text or as a resource in a course on general educational topics. The structure of the book, which also makes it accessible to parents and other concerned parties, could be used to guide discussions concerning assessment at both school an government levels.. <br>-Education Horizons, Vol. 77, No. Fall 1998 <br>

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues central to the practice of assessment. Teachers, administrators, and other educators are exposed to the critical aspects of assessment and to the core issues of future decisions concerning the roles and directions of assessment in schools. .The books could be effectively used as a supplement to a more comprehensive text or as a resource in a course on general educational topics. The structure of the book, which also makes it accessible to parents and other concerned parties, could be used to guide discussions concerning assessment at both school an government levels.. -Education Horizons, Vol. 77, No. Fall 1998

'There can be few authors more able to illuminate the theory and practice of assessment and testing ... it can be thoroughly recommended as a starting-point for understanding the tensions in testing and assessment, challenging our preconceptions of them as friends or foes.' - Educational Research 'This useful text provides a comprehensive and easy reading introduction to assessment and testing and would be suitable for initial teacher training, early master's degree or diploma work.' - Cambridge Journal of Education

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Paul Black is Professor Emeritus of King's College London. He has been involved in numerous research and development projects in both curriculum and assessment. He contributed to several of the curriculum projects sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation, and has also worked in international projects, notably with the OECD. He was co-director of the national science surveys of the UK Assessment of Performance Unit from 1978 to 1987, and in 1987-88 he was chair of the government Task Group on Assessment and Testing which advised on the new UK policy for national assessment. He is currently a member of the Board on Testing and Assessment of the USA National Academy of Sciences.

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