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Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms
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This study features a collection of eight case studies of exemplary cases from secondary schools as well as international literature reviews and policy analysis related to formative assessment – the frequent assessments of student progress to identify learning needs and shape teaching. It examines such issues as benefits and barriers for using formative assessment, policy frameworks and implications, and formative assessment in practice. Achievement gains attributed to formative assessment are reported as being quite high, but it is not yet practiced systematically. This book makes the case for use of formative assessment and shows how it can be put into practice.
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(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph69-en
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(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph51-en
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Change between 2009 and 2012 in the share of students with access to the Internet at school
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph28-en
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph14-en
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(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph10-en
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(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph74-en
Percentage of students with access to the Internet at school, but not at home
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph67-en
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph54-en
Use of ICT outside of school for schoolwork
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph23-en
Student-oriented teaching and disciplinary climate, by computer use in mathematics lessons
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph35-en
Relationship between text processing and navigation in digital reading tasks
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph50-en
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph33-en
Students' skills in reading, by index of ICT use at school
(2015) · Programme for international student assessment/Internationale Schulleistungsstudie · doi:10.1787/9789264239555-graph76-en
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