An authoritative critical overview of the field and identifies future challenges and directions.

This book looks at the role and purpose of assessment in primary education and provides guidance and practical strategies, so students will gain a firm understanding of assessment and how to use it effectively in their teaching.

The ultimate guide to helping students understand the stressors from university life, build their resilience, look after their wellbeing, generate full energy, and achieve high performance and success in their studies.

Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today.

Responding to the crucial focus on wellbeing, resilience and personal development for those working in health and social care, this book will equip students and practitioners with the necessary tools to support, improve and maintain their wellbeing throughout their programme and into their career.

A guide to assessment for anyone working in curriculum and assessment policy, demonstrating the principles and practice of assessment for improving learning and education.

With chapters based on real situations outlining practical strategies, this guide shows you how formative teaching, learning and assessment can enrich day-to-day teaching, and ensure deep and sustained learning.

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

Offering an in-depth study of validity, which forms an important part of education assessment, this book addresses complex concepts in a straightforward manner, while guiding the reader through the evolution of validity from the 19th century to the present day.

Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations.