Developing Teacher Assessment / Edition 1

by John Gardner, Wynne Harlen, Louise Hayward, Gordon Stobart, Martin Montgomery

Overview

This book argues that the role of teacher assessment needs to be put firmly at the forefront of the educational agenda and that assessment by teachers needs to be developed in a widespread, high quality and sustainable fashion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335237838
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Gardner is Professor of Education in the School of Education at Queen's University, Belfast and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford Centre for Educational Assessment, UK.

Wynne Harlen, OBE is Honorary Visiting Professor at University of Bristol, UK.

Louise Hayward is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Gordon Stobart is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol and an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Martin Montgomery was formerly the Assessment Operations and Development Manager at the Northern Ireland Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment and is now an independent Assessment Consultant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Developing teacher assessment: an introduction John Gardner 1

Part I Lighting the fuse

1 Assessment to support learning Wynne Harlen John Gardner 15

2 What is quality teacher assessment? Wynne Harlen 29

3 What is happening in the UK? Martin Montgomery 53

Part II Spreading the word, widening the practice

4 What is innovative about teacher assessment? John Gardner 71

5 Moving beyond the classroom Louise Hayward 85

6 Professional learning to support teacher assessment Wynne Harlen 100

7 Teachers as self-agents of change John Gardner 130

Part III Keeping it going

8 Making a difference: evaluating the impact of innovations in assessment Gordon Stobart 141

9 Embedding and sustaining developments in teacher assessment Wynne Harlen Louise Hayward 155

Appendix 1 Projects examined and members of the core group and advisory committee of the Nuffield Foundation-funded Analysis and Review of Innovations in Assessment (ARIA) Study, 2006/8 172

Appendix 2 A professional development template John Gardner 174

References 179

Index 195