Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Corrigan, Deborah. (Editor), Gunstone, Richard. (Editor), Jones, Alister. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Education.; Science > Study and teaching.; Educational tests and measurements.; Science Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6668-6

Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning. This book takes a broad and deep view of research involving assessment in science education, across contexts and cultures...

Table of Contents:

• Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework, Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Alister Jones, Richard Gunstone
• International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education, Peter J. Fensham
• International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping what Counts in School Science, Alister Jones, Cathy Buntting
• Improving Science Education: Why Science Matters, Robin Millar
• Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum, Peter J. Fensham, Lǒnie J. Rennie
• Aligning Science Curriculum Renewal Efforts and Assessment Practices, Wilmad Kuiper, Elvira Folmer, Wout Ottevanger
• Content to be Assessed Across the History of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Audrey B. Champagne
• The Influence of Assessment on Moderating Science Teachers<U+0019> Beliefs and Practices, Deborah Corrigan, Rebecca Cooper
• Issues in Teaching for and Assessment of Creativity in Mathematics and Science, Mike Askew
• Science Teachers<U+0019> Understanding of the College Entrance Examination in a Climate of National Curriculum Reform in China, Hongming Ma
• Pedagogy in Theory and in Practice: Formative and Summative Assessments in Classrooms and in Systems, Paul Black
• An Assessment Perezhivanie: Building an Assessment Pedagogy for, with and of Early Childhood Science Learning, Marilyn Fleer, Gloria Quiǫnes
• Classroom Assessment: Making Space for Diversity, Bronwen Cowie
• Formative Assessment as a Cltural Practice: The Use of Written Formative Assessment in Samoan Science Classrooms, Desmond Lee Hang, Beverley Bell
• The Disparity Between Achievement and Engagement in Students<U+0019> Science Learning: A Case of East-Asian Regions, Jinwoong Song
• Embedding Assessment Within Primary School Science: A Case Study, Angela Fitzgerald, Richard Gunstone
• Formative Assessment in Learning to Teach Science, Pernilla Nilsson, John Loughran
• Changing Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms, Chris Harrison
• Assessment: Where to Next?, Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Richard Gunstone, Alister Jones.