Full Description
This book provides students, teachers, and researchers with a deeper examination of educational assessment fundamentals and examines assessment beyond (best) practices. The authors go beyond simply updating what is best practice assessment by understanding "best practices" in a way that will hold true for the future, especially in the wake of the drastic disruptions in these past few years.
Covering key topics of inclusive assessment, psychosocial impacts and wellbeing of students, and assessment in the age of technological proliferation and Artificial Intelligence, this book is divided into four sections: (a) "Assessment fit for future in schools, for society", (b)"Assessment literacy, and leadership" (c) "Theories and technicalities of assessment ", and (d) "Assessment for all learners in schools, and society". By the end of the book, readers will have nuanced understandings of the complexities of assessment issues that can enable a re-examination of what is fundamental to assessment and learning in schools, and how that prepares our learners for uncertain futures in society.
This book is a must-read for teachers, school leaders, policy makers, and researchers looking to reflect critically on their assessment practices, and consider new ways of formulating assessment that is fit for all learners in schools and beyond.
Contents
Part 1: Assessment Fit for Future in Schools, for Society
1. Preservice teachers' conceptions of fairness in classrooms, schools, and society
Amir Rasooli and Michael Holden
2. Assessment in an Inclusive Classroom
Simon Reynolds
3. Assessment as the Safe Space for Student Wellbeing and Learning
Jill Willis and Julie Arnold
4. A Review of Singapore's Assessment Reforms and its Impact in Reshaping and Repositioning Assessment Practices in Schools
Wong Hwei Ming and Kelvin Tan
Part 2: Assessment Literacy, and Leadership
5. Assessment Leadership: What? How? By Whom?
Tay Hui Yong
6. Re-conceptualising Assessment Literacy: Situated Perspectives on Practice and Leadership
Durka Devi Palaraju
7. Resistance and Agency in Assessment for Learning
Kelvin Tan, Durka Devi Palaraju, Grace Koh, and Lin Shaojie
8. Evaluating Assessment Initiatives: Evaluating the Influence of Leadership in Formative Assessment Implementation Across Two Primary Schools in Singapore
Kiren Kaur
9. Engaging students as feedback partners in Singapore schools: Affordances and constraints Jessica To and Grace Koh
Part 3: Theories and technicalities of assessment
10. Principled assessment design for schools
Chue Kah Loong
11. A critical assessment of the argument-based validity framework
Vahid Aryadoust and Azrifah Zakaria
12. Assessment in the Digital Age
Tay Hui Yong and Ralph Saubern
13. Supporting assessment with learning progressions
Chue Kah Loong, Kate Lafferty, and Melissa Barnes
14. Item Response Theory and The Rasch Model
Qianqian Pan
Part 4: Assessment for all leaners in schools, and society
15. Fostering Trust in GenAI-Assisted AfL Feedback: Exploring the Intersection of Teachers' and Students' Literacies in Feedback and AI
Shamini Thilarajah, Farhan Ali, and Shanti Divaharan
16. English Language Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment Feedback: From Inspection To Introspection
Rachel Goh
17. Recognising Students' Gestures as Signs of Learning for Formative Assessment
Amelia Yeo and Fei Victor Lim
18. Assessment for All (Special) Learners and the Lundy Framework of Participation
Xie Huichao and Kelvin Tan
19. Using the Receptivity to Instructional Feedback Scale in Primary and Secondary Schools Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Koh Ee Hway, Poh Lee Siew, Emilian A. Lipnevich, Edna Tay Chee Joo, and Kelvin Tan Heng Kiat
20. Assessment Fit for our Future - beyond practices and paradigms to protect Human Agency
Kelvin Tan
