From Testing to Productive Student Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings

By David Carless

Book Overview

Formative assessment is a major driver of teacher and student actions in all educational systems, and it is an increasingly high-profile topic. This book scrutinises the relationship between testing and learning, as well as the role of cultural context in influencing assessment options, by using data from schools in the Confucian-heritage setting of Hong Kong.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415880823
• ISBN13: 9780415880824
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"