Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform: Standards and Standard Setting for Excellence in Education

by Coert Loock, Vanessa Scherman

Overview

Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform provides background information on large-scale examination systems more generally and the South African examination specifically. It traces the reforms in the education system of South Africa since 1994 and provides a description of the advances in modern test theory that could be considered for future standard setting endeavours.

At the heart of the book is the debate on whether the current standard of education in Africa is good enough . If not, then how can it be improved? The aim of this book is to provide a point of departure for discussions on standard-setting, quality assurance, equating of examinations and assessment approaches. From this point of departure recommendations for practices in general and the exit-level (Grade 12) examination results in particular can be made.

This book is ideal reading for principals, teachers, academics and researchers in the fields of educational assessment, measurement, and evaluation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138394223
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2019
Series:	Perspectives on Education in Africa
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Coert Loock is a professor at Department of Education Leadership and Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vanessa Scherman is a professor at Department of Psychology of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa.

Table of Contents

1. Background and introduction. 2. Background to large-scale examination systems. 3. Perspectives on education assessment reform. 4. Equating examinations and assessment standards in the South African context. 5. The management and quality assurance of school-based assessment in South Africa. 6. Using examination and assessment scores: Different ways of reporting performance. 7. Rethinking standard setting: Drawing from advances in modern test theory. 8. Item banking and computer adaptive testing. 9. Developing a computerised system for large scale computer adaptive testing (CAT). 10. Educational assessment in a time of reform: Where to from here?