Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy

1. Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework
Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Alister Jones, Richard Gunstone

2. International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education
Peter J. Fensham

3. International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping What Counts in School Science
Alister Jones, Cathy Buntting

4. Improving Science Education: Why Assessment Matters
Robin Millar

5. Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum
Peter J. Fensham, Léonie J. Rennie

6. Aligning Science Curriculum Renewal Efforts and Assessment Practices
Wilmad Kuiper, Elvira Folmer, Wout Ottevanger

7. Content to be Assessed Across the History of the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Audrey B. Champagne

8. The Influence of Assessment on Moderating Science Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices
Deborah Corrigan, Rebecca Cooper

9. Issues in Teaching for and Assessment of Creativity in Mathematics and Science
Mike Askew

10. Science Teachers’ Understanding of the College Entrance Examination in a Climate of National Curriculum Reform in China
Hongming Ma

11. Pedagogy in Theory and in Practice: Formative and Summative Assessments in Classrooms and in Systems
Paul Black

12. An Assessment Perezhivanie: Building an Assessment Pedagogy for, with and of Early Childhood Science Learning
Marilyn Fleer, Gloria Quiñones

13. Classroom Assessment: Making Space for Diversity
Bronwen Cowie

14. Formative Assessment as a Cultural Practice: The Use of Written Formative Assessment in Samoan Science Classrooms
Desmond Lee Hang, Beverley Bell

15. The Disparity Between Achievement and Engagement in Students’ Science Learning: A Case of East-Asian Regions
Jinwoong Song

16. Embedding Assessment Within Primary School Science: A Case Study
Angela Fitzgerald, Richard Gunstone

17. Formative Assessment in Learning to Teach Science
Pernilla Nilsson, John Loughran

18. Changing Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms
Chris Harrison

19. Assessment: Where to Next?
Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Richard Gunstone, Alister Jones

Keywords: Education, Science Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation