Educational Assessment in the 21st Century

1. Framing Assessment Today for the Future: Issues and Challenges
J. Joy Cumming, Claire Wyatt-Smith

Part I. Creativity and Innovation in Assessment: New Skills and Capabilities, and Changing Communication Practices

2. Assessment in the Perspective of a Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodal Teaching and Learning
Gunther Kress

3. Transforming K–12 Assessment: Integrating Accountability Testing, Formative Assessment and Professional Support
Randy Elliot Bennett, Drew H. Gitomer

4. Assessment Issues and New Technologies: ePortfolio Possibilities
Glenn Finger, Romina Jamieson-Proctor

5. Towards Theorising Assessment as Critical Inquiry
Claire Wyatt-Smith, Stephanie Gunn

Part II. Building Social Capital: Difference, Diversity and Social Inclusion

6. Fairness in Assessment
Caroline Gipps, Gordon Stobart

7. Assessment, Gender and In/Equity
Susan M. Brookhart

8. Assessment, Disability, Student Engagement and Responses to Intervention
Deb Keen, Michael Arthur-Kelly

9. Assessment Challenges, the Law and the Future
J. Joy Cumming

Part III. Assessment in a Context: Geography, Policy and Practice

10. Teachers’ Use of Assessment Data
Patrick Griffin

11. A Problematic Leap in the Use of Test Data: From Performance to Inference
Gabrielle Matters

12. Educational Assessment in Norway—A Time of Change
Sverre Tveit

13. Articulating Tacit Knowledge Through Analyses of Recordings: Implications for Competency Assessment in the Vocational Education and Training Sector
Ann Kelly

14. Defining Standards for the 21st Century
Graham Samuel Maxwell

Nyckelord: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Learning & Instruction