Testing: Friend or Foe? :Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing

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Testing: Friend or Foe?

Testing: Friend or Foe? :Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing

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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780750706148
ISBN10 0750706147
Number Of Pages 184
Item Weight 1280 g
Publisher / Reseller Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format paperback
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'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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Author's Bio

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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