Assessment and Reporting: Celebrating Student Achievement (Custom Edition), 1st edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (February 16, 2015) © 2015

  • Laurie Brady University of Technology, Sydney , University of Technology
  • Kerry Kennedy Hong Kong Institute of Education

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Assessment and Reporting: Celebrating Student Achievement (Custom Edition)
Published 2015

This custom edition is published for Swinburne University.

Assessment and Reporting: Celebrating Student Achievement provides an analysis of assessment and reporting within two different contexts: accountability required by governments and a focus on authentic assessment that facilitates student learning.

The product analyses the nature of assessment, reporting and the relationship to learning. It also examines the Australian government's external testing program, and the assessment and reporting implications of the national curriculum.

In a nutshell, Assessment and Reporting: Celebrating Student Achievement captures the reality of the assessment and reporting policy and practice in Australian schools. By articulating complex issues relating to assessment and reporting, it reflects the concerns of the contemporary assessment literature.

CHAPTER ONE

  • Contexts for Assessment and Reporting
  • The multiple contexts influencing assessment and reporting
  • The outcomes of schooling
  • Economic contexts
  • Equity and social contexts
  • Accountability
  • Personal fulfilment and satisfaction

CHAPTER TWO

  • Principles of Assessment for Learning
  • The role of assessment
  • Types of assessment and their purposes
  • The contexts for different types of assessment
  • The reporting of outcomes for different types of assessment
  • General principles for assessment and reporting
  • The educational purposes of assessment and reporting

CHAPTER THREE

  • Assessment and Teaching - Providing Feedback to Enhance Learning
  • Key concepts and issues for assessment
  • Designing valid, reliable and fair assessment
  • Educational values underpinning assessment and reporting
  • External contexts influencing assessment and reporting
  • Assessment, accountability and politics
  • School reform and the economy
  • Schools and their social purposes

CHAPTER FOUR

  • Strategies for Assessing Student Achievement in the Classroom
  • Traditional and authentic assessment
  • Strategies
  • A. Tests

CHAPTER FIVE

  • Strategies for Self- and Peer Assessment
  • The link with learning
  • The benefits of self-assessment
  • The benefits of peer assessment
  • Implementing self- and peer assessment
  • Essentials
  • Context
  • Strategies
  • Journals
  • Process portfolios
  • Contracts
  • Self-assessment proformas
  • Physical continuums
  • Presentations
  • Conferencing
  • Student-led reporting
  • Joint marking
  • 'Traffic lights'
  • The student response

CHAPTER SIX

  • Records of Assessment
  • Recording and assessment
  • Why should record keeping be a priority in schools?
  • Methods of record keeping
  • Technology and record keeping

CHAPTER SEVEN

  • Principles and Strategies for Reporting Student Achievement in the Classroom
  • Purposes 100 Principles
  • What parents want
  • Cyclical needs
  • Contextual needs
  • Social information needs
  • Reporting requirements
  • Strategies
  • Reports
  • Marks
  • Letter grades
  • Ranks
  • Words
  • Outcomes
  • Interviews
  • The teacher-parent interview
  • The teacher-student interview
  • The student-parent interview
  • The teacher-student-parent interview
  • Portfolios
  • School-wide reporting
  • Brochures
  • Newsletters
  • Open days, speech nights and assemblies
  • Classroom visits and classroom/in-school displays
  • Out-of-school displays

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