Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis book provides an overview of current research on a variety of topics related to both large-scale and classroom assessment. First, the purposes, traditions and principles of assessment are considered, with particular attention to those commo…
About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- PART 1: Assessment in Education: Implications for Leaders -- PART 2: Assessment at the District/School Leadership Level -- PART 3: Leadership Assessment-related Knowledge and Behaviours -- Index.This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student asses…
1. Implementing Assessment for Learning: Theoretical and Practical Issues -- PART I: Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems -- 2. Assessment Policy Enactment in Education Systems: A Few Reasons to Be Optimistic -- 3. Making Meaning of Assessment Policy in Australia through Teacher Assessment Conversations -- 4. Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Au…
Part I Assessing extra-curricular activities for graduate employment -- 1 Students' perceptions about Assessment Modes for Service Learning Modules -- 2 SHINE Point Templates: The Taylor's journey to capture the essence of Extra-curricular assessment -- Part II Innovative Assessment Approaches -- 3 Assessing writing skills of postgraduate students: Perspectives of supervisors and supervisees --…
Trends, Issues and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners by Marianne Nikolov -- Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture by Shelagh Rixon -- A CEFR-Based Inventory of YL Descriptors: Principles and Challenges by Veronica Benigno and John de Jong -- A Framework for Young EFL Lear…
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Mediating assessment innovation: Why stakeholder perspectives matter -- Chapter 2:Assessing spoken proficiency: What are the issues? -- Chapter 3:Introducing a new assessment of spoken proficiency: Interact -- Chapter 4: Investigating stakeholder perspectives on Interact -- Chapter 5: The advantages and disadvantages of Interact -- Chapter 6:The disadva…
Preface -- Foreword -- PART I: Introduction -- PART II: Student Background -- PART III: Outcomes of Education Beyond Achievement -- PART IV: Learning in Schools -- Acknowledgements.This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direc…
Foreword; Lee S. Shulman -- 1. Introduction; Marcia Mentkowski and Paul F. Wimmers -- 2. Conceptual Elements for Performance Assessment for Faculty and Student Learning; Marcia Mentkowski, Mary E. Diez, Dena Lieberman, Desiree Pointer Mace, Margaret Rauschenberger, and Jeana Abromeit -- 3. Improving the Integration of Performance Assessments within the Curriculum Across the Professions; Ilene H…
Basic Principles -- Spectroscopy -- Imaging and Mass-Transport -- Low-Field and Unilateral NMR.ESSENTIAL NMR is a set of lecture notes for scientists and engineers who want to brush up on their knowledge of NMR. This book is also a compendium for graduate and postgraduate students of physics and chemistry as well as for their teachers, covering all fields of NMR, i.e. NMR methodology and hardwa…
Applications and Devices -- MEMS-Based Thin Film and Resonant Chemical Sensors -- Microactuators Based on Thin Films -- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and Acoustic Sensors Based on Piezoelectric Thin Films -- Thick-Film Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Devices -- Micromachined Infrared Detectors Based on Pyroelectric Thin Films -- RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators and Filters -- High Fre…