Student Perspectives on Assessment

What Students Can Tell Us about Assessment for Learning

Dennis M. McInerney, Gavin T. L. Brown, Gregory Arief D. Liem, Dennis M. McInerney, Gavin T. L. Brown, Gregory Arief D. Liem

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781607523529
  9781607523536
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607523543
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. However, how students themselves perceive assessments (both high-stakes qualifications and low-stakes monitoring) is not well understood. This volume collects research studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and New Zealand that have deliberately focused on how students in primary, secondary, and tertiary education conceive of, experience, understand, and evaluate assessments. Assessment for learning has assumed that formative assessments and classroom practices would be an unqualified success in terms of student learning outcomes. Making use of a variety of qualitatively interpreted focus groups, observations, and interviews and factor-analytic survey methods, the studies collected in this volume raise doubts as to the validity of this formulation. We commend this volume to readers hoping to stimulate their own thinking and research in the area of student assessment. We believe the chapters will challenge researchers, policy makers, teacher educators, and instructors as to how assessment for learning can be implemented.

Table of contents

• Cover
• STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON ASSESSMENT:WHAT STUDENTS CAN TELLUS ABOUT ASSESSMENT FORLEARNING
• STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON ASSESSMENT:WHAT STUDENTS CAN TELLUS ABOUT ASSESSMENT FORLEARNING
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• 1: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES OF ASSESSMENT: Considering What Assessment Means to Learners
• PART I: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF ASSESSMENT IN COMPULSORY SCHOOLING
• PART II: STUDIES WITH THE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTIONS OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY
• PART III: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF ASSESSMENT
• AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES