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Ninomiya, Shuichi – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2016
Black and Wiliam (1998a, 1998b) demonstrate that formative assessment is one of the most effective strategies for promoting student learning. Since the publication of their reviews, formative assessment has gained increasing international prominence in both policy and practice. However, despite this early innovation, the theory and practice of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Achievement Gap, Theory Practice Relationship, Accountability
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Mileff, Milo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
In the present paper and the discussion that follows, the author presents aspects of test construction and a careful description of instructional objectives. Constructing tests involves several stages such as describing language objectives, selecting appropriate test task, devising and assembling test tasks, and devising a scoring system for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Test Construction, Norm Referenced Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
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Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J. – Deafness and Education International, 2014
This study investigated the Individual Learning Plans of eighty-eight students who were deaf and hard of hearing attending facilities and schools for the deaf in Victoria Australia. The students' assessment and planning portfolios were scrutinised for evidence of formal and informal assessment used to generate goals for the Individual Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Special Education
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Redelius, Karin; Hay, Peter J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The pedagogical and status implications of assessment in physical education (PE) have been recognised in the past. How students perceive being assessed and graded is a neglected area, however. While some studies have garnered students' perceptions of assessment when no grade is awarded or the stakes are relatively low, we know less…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Focus Groups
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Hsieh, Pei-Hsuan; Dwyer, Francis – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of different online reading strategies for students identified as possessing different learning styles, either internal or external locus of control styles, on tests measuring different learning objectives. Participants were 169 undergraduate students, randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Locus of Control, Cognitive Style, Reading Strategies