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This volume discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds, with a particular focus on the policies and implementation of assessment reform in education, as well as its overall impact.

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This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education. A new perspective of assessment sees assessment as a means to enhance learning.
This book examines the tensions, challenges and outcomes (intended and unintended) of assessment reform arising at the interface of policy and implementation, and implementation and student learning. The book reviews the experiences insights gained from research, and identifies the facilitators and hindrances to effective change. It reflects current thinking of assessment and provides the readers with ample background information of assessment development in many countries including USA, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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Contents.- Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Contributors.- Part 1 Assessment Reform Experiences.- 1 Assessment Reform Past, Present and Future: Rita Berry and Bob Adamson.- 2 Assessment for Learning: Research and Policy in the (dis)United Kingdom: Mary James.- 3 Assessment for Learning: US Perspectives: Jim Flaitz.- 4 Educational Assessment in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Rita Berry.- 5 Assessment Reform and Educational Change in Australia: Val Klenowski.- 6 Assessment for Learning Reform in Singapore - Quality, Sustainable or Threshold? Kelvin Tan.- 7 Assessment Reforms around the World: Rita Berry-. Part 2 Issues in the Spotlight.- 8 Engaging and Empowering Teachers in Innovative Assessment Practice: John Gardner, Wynne Harlen, Louise Hayward and Gordon Stobart.- 9 Teachers´ Feedback to Pupils: "Like so many bottles thrown out to sea"? Eleanore Hargreaves.- 10 Assessment for Learning in Language Classroom: Alice Chow and Pamela Leung.- 11 Assessment Reform: High-Stakes Testing and Knowing the Contents of Other Minds: David Scott.- 12 Assessment of Significant Learning Outcomes: Richard Daugherty, Paul Black, Kathryn Ecclestone, Mary James and Paul Newton. - 13 Developing Assessment for Learning in a Large-Scale Programme: Hak Ping Tam and Yu-Jen Lu.- 14 Embedding Assessment for Learning: Bob Adamson. Author Index. Subject Index. Foreword. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. List of Figures. Contributors .

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