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Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
This paper focuses on an unceremonious type of formative assessment--"informal formative assessment"--in which much of what teachers and students do in the classroom can be described as potential assessments that can provide evidence about the students' level of understanding. More specifically, the paper focuses on assessment conversations, or…
Descriptors: Evidence, Speech Communication, Formative Evaluation, Classroom Communication
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Wiliam, Dylan – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The idea that assessment is intrinsic to effective instruction is traced from early experiments in the individualization of learning through the work of Benjamin Bloom to reviews of the impact of feedback on learners in classrooms. While many of these reviews detailed the adverse impact of assessment on learning, they also indicated that under…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Segers, Mien; Tillema, Harm – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
How teachers and students deal with assessment practices is largely influenced by the conceptions they hold about the purpose of assessment. This means that, given the current plea for a paradigm shift from Assessment "of" Learning to Assessment "for" Leaning with a balance between the formative and summative purposes of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Measures (Individuals), Secondary School Teachers, Accountability
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Ploegh, Karin; Tillema, Harm H.; Segers, Mien S. R. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
With the increasing popularity of peer assessment as an assessment tool, questions may arise about its measurement quality. Among such questions, the extent peer assessment practices adhere to standards of measurement. It has been claimed that new forms of assessment, require new criteria to judge their validity and reliability, since they aim for…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Measurement, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Harlen, Wynne – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
The assessment of students is used for various different purposes within an assessment system. It has an impact on students, teaching and the curriculum, the nature of this impact depending upon how it is carried out. In order to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of particular assessment procedures, criteria need to be applied. This…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Student Evaluation, Test Validity, Construct Validity
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Zoller, Uri – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1983
The Development of Teaching Competencies course was developed for an undergraduate teacher training program and covered strategies of teaching and learning; high level thinking and personal growth; and evaluation methods and examinations. The Eclectic Examination was developed for use concurrently as a student evaluation device and for a formative…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation