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

by David Carless

Book Overview

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between testing and learning from alternative perspectives to the dominant literature from the major Anglophone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415811546
• ISBN13: 9780415811545
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"