Innovative assessment for the 21st century
Subtitle: supporting educational needs
By: Valerie J. Shute, Betsy Jane Becker, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781441965295
Subjects: Congresses; Educational tests and measurements; Psychometrics; Educational evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Prelude :; title: assessment for the 21st century  -- Valerie J. Shute and Betsy Jane Becker; title: Human action and social groups as the natural home of assessment :; title: thoughts on 21st century learning and assessment   -- James Paul Gee; title: Growing learning and assessment in the 21st century  -- King D. Beach III; title: Aiming at learning :; title: assessment as the critical link  -- Mari Pearlman; title: Sharpening the aim :; title: making strides to create an assessement culture in schools  -- Lynn Wicker; title: Using evidence centered design to think about assessments  -- Russell G. Almond; title: Thinking about assessments in a transitional time  -- Kris Ellington and Vincent Verges; title: Participatory assessment of 21st century proficiencies  -- Daniel T. Hickey ... [et al.]; title: Making assessment relevant to students, teachers, and schools  -- Joseph A. Martineau and Vincent J. Dean; title: Automated essay scoring in a high stakes testing environment  -- Mark D. Shermis; title: Assessing change in learner's casual understanding using sequential analysis and casual maps  -- Allan C. Jeong; title: Development  and use of a tool for evaluating teacher effectiveness in grades K-12  -- Alysia D. Roehrig and Eric Christesen -- Epilogue :; title: achieving quality 21st century assessment -- Betsy Jane Becker and Valerie J. Shute.