书目名称 | Educational Assessment in the 21st Century | 副标题 | Connecting Theory an | 编辑 | Claire Wyatt-Smith,J. Joy Cumming | 视频video | | 概述 | A host of internationally recognized authors explore the latest ideas on the future of assessment.Provides readers with a range of theoretical and methodological viewpoints.Includes an explanation of | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place...Examinations Then and Now In the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam, a series of stone stelae records the names of the handful of illustrious examination candidates who, in each century, passed the national examination to become a Doctor of Literature. Beginning in the 11thcentury,theexamswereconductedpersonallybysuccessivekingswhopursued Confucian ideals that found expression in the enormous value placed on the pursuit of wisdom and learning. In the 21st century we are both puzzled and impressed by this tradition. Puzzled by such an explicit commitment to a meritocracy in an essentially feudal society; impressed by this enthusiasm for learning and the pursuit of wisdom at the highest level of society. Yet, there are also important similarities between the 11th and 21st centuries. Then, as now, assessment was associated with excellence, high standards, pr- tige and competition—success for the chosen few; disappointment for the majority. Then, as now, the pursuit of excellence was embedded in a social context that favoured the elite and determined success in terms of the predilections of the p- er | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Approaches to assessment; Assessment and student learning; Constraints on assessment; Fairness; Formativ | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9964-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8231-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-9964-9 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |
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