Leading Student Assessment
This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes
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STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP VOLUME 15 Series Editor Kenneth A. Leithwood, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Editorial Board Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen L. Jacobson, Graduate School of Education, Buffalo, U.S.A. Bill Mulford, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Peter Sleegers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Leadership we know makes all the difference in success or failures of organizations. This series will bring together in a highly readable way the most recent insights in successful leadership. Emphasis will be placed on research focused on pre-collegiate educational organizations. Volumes should address issues related to leadership at all levels of the educational system and be written in a style accessible to scholars, educational practitioners and policy makers throughout the world. The volumes – monographs and edited volumes – should represent work from different parts in the world.
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Leading Student Assessment
Editors Charles F. Webber Faculty of Human, Social and Educational Development Thompson Rivers University 900 McGill Road Kamloops, British Columbia Canada, V2C OC8 [email protected]
Judy L. Lupart Department of Educational Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2G5 [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-1726-8 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1727-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1727-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938107 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
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Taking Stock of Here and Now .............................................................. Judy L. Lupart and Charles F. Webber
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School Leadership, Evidence-Based Decision Making, and Large-Scale Student Assessment .................................................... Kenneth Leithwood
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Lessons Learned: The Promise and Possibility of Educational Accountability in the United States ............................. Charles L. Slater, Marla W. McGhee, Sarah W. Nelson, and Lionel “Skip” Meno Student Assessment Policy and Practice in Alberta: An Assessment for Learning .................................................................. Jim Brandon and Marsi Quarin-Wright
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Fair and Ethical Student Assessment Practices ................................... Jean L. Pettifor and Donald H. Saklofske
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How Can Psychological Assessment Inform Classroom Practice? The Role of the S
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