Table of contents - Special Issue: Assessment, Accountability and Quality Issues, Accountability and Quality
Can today’s standardized achievement tests yield instructionally useful data?: Challenges, promises and the state of the art
W. James Popham, David C. Berliner, Neal M. Kingston, Susan H. Fuhrman, Steven M. Ladd, Jeffrey Charbonneau, Madhabi ChatterjiAgainst a backdrop of high-stakes assessment policies in the USA, this paper explores the challenges, promises and the “state of the art” with regard to designing standardized…
On the merits of, and myths about, international assessments
Oren Pizmony-Levy, James Harvey, William H. Schmidt, Richard Noonan, Laura Engel, Michael J. Feuer, Henry Braun, Carla Santorno, Iris C. Rotberg, Paul Ash, Madhabi Chatterji, Judith Torney-PurtaThis paper presents a moderated discussion on popular misconceptions, benefits and limitations of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs, clarifying how ILSA results…
Bringing formative classroom assessment to schools and making it count
Edmund W. Gordon, Michael V. McGill, Deanna Iceman Sands, Kelley M. Kalinich, James W. Pellegrino, Madhabi ChatterjiThe purpose of this article is to present alternative views on the theory and practice of formative assessment (FA), or assessment to support teaching and learning in classrooms…
A moral compass framework for resolution of wicked problems in doctoral education and supervision
John A. Bowden, Pam GreenThe purpose of the paper is to design and explain a moral compass framework that informs decision-making by those engaged in shaping the doctoral education and supervision…
The production-based PhD: an action research model for supervisors:
Gail PhillipsThis paper aims to demonstrate how action research methodologies can help to define and clarify the pedagogical role of the supervisor in production-based research (PBR). A major…
Pragmatist supervision of doctoral writers
Graham Badley– The purpose of this paper is to present pragmatism as a useful way for supervisors to help their research students become effective research writers.
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0968-4883e-ISSN:
1758-7662ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Jeffrey W Alstete
- Dr Heidi Flavian
- Dr Krassie Petrova