Jacqueline P. Leighton, Mark J. Gierl

The Learning Sciences in Educational Assessment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Identifies visual models of the knowledge and strategies students consider in the domains of reading, science and mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521194112
• ISBN-10: 0521194113
• Artikelnr.: 33216231

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline P. Leighton is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME). She is also registered as a psychologist by the College of Alberta Psychologists. Her specialization is educational assessment and cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on test development and validity analysis. Dr Leighton's current research is on identifying and evaluating methods for generating cognitive models for educational assessment practice. Her research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC) and is currently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The learning sciences in educational assessment: an introduction; 2.
Evaluating cognitive models in large-scale educational assessments; 3.
Cognitive models of task performance for reading comprehension; 4.
Cognitive models of task performance for scientific reasoning and
discovery; 5. Cognitive models of task performance for mathematical
reasoning; 6. Putting it all together: cognitive models to inform the
design and development of large-scale educational assessment; 7.
Cognitively-based statistical methods - technical illustrations.