Full Description
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.
Contents
1. The Gordon Commission and a Vision for the Future of Assessment in Education 2. Assessment for Teaching and Learning, Not Just Accountability 3. Assessment Can and Should Incorporate Emerging Technologies and Epistemologies to Respond to Changing Paradigms in Education 4. Both Educating and Being Educated are Changing in the Twenty-First Century 5. Assessment Requires Reasoning from Evidence 6. New Approaches to Assessment that Move in the Right Direction 7. New Data Collection and Analysis Methods Offer Powerful Insights into Performance 8. A Star to Guide By: Toward Assessment that Is Capable of Informing and Improving Teaching and Learning
