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The Power of Assessment in the Classroom

Improving Decisions to Promote Learning

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  • © 2023

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Editors:
  1. Carla E. Förster

    1. Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile

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  • Examines classroom evaluation to improve student learning
  • Includes examples to illustrate concepts introduced throughout the book
  • Contains step-by-step tutorials to help the reader learn quickly

Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Teacher Assessment Literacy

    • Carla E. Förster
    Pages 1-21

  3. Learning and Assessment: What Is Not Assessed, Is Not Learnt

    • Carla E. Förster, Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona
    Pages 23-51

  4. Integrated Planning of Teaching and Assessment

    • Sandra C. Zepeda, Carla E. Förster
    Pages 53-68

  5. The End Justifies the Means: Purposes of Assessment

    • Sandra C. Zepeda
    Pages 69-86

  6. Effective Feedback and Its Potential to Enhance Learning

    • Sandra C. Zepeda
    Pages 87-104

  7. Students as Assessment Agents

    • Carla E. Förster
    Pages 105-127

  8. Learning Assessment Tools: Which One to Use?

    • Carla E. Förster, Sandra C. Zepeda, Claudio Núñez Vega
    Pages 129-171

  9. Assessing with Graphic Organisers: How and When to Use Them

    • Paola Marchant-Araya
    Pages 173-205

  10. Quality Criteria for Developing Assessment Tools

    • Carla E. Förster, Cristian A. Rojas-Barahona
    Pages 207-227

  11. A Case Analysis Methodology to Guide Decision Making in the Schooling Context

    • Paola Marchant-Araya, Carla E. Förster
    Pages 229-261
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About this book

This textbook addresses the main assessment issues that teachers and educational institutions face in their daily work, while providing practical tools to support actions and decisions in this area. The critical issues observed in the assessment practices are made visible and specific guidelines and examples are given on how to carry out an effective and realistic classroom assessment within the school context.

The book reveals evaluation elements that future and practicing teachers need to know about and can benefit from, such as the alignment between curriculum, teaching and assessment, flexibility in the construction of instruments according to their purpose, effective feedback, rubrics to evaluate performance and the use of specification tables to make pedagogical decisions (beyond the construction of the instruments itself).

Translation from the Spanish language edition: El Poder de la Evaluación en el Aula. Mejores Decisiones para Promover Aprendizajes by Carla E.Förster Marín, © Ediciones UC 2018. Published by Ediciones UC. All Rights Reserved.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile

    Carla E. Förster

About the editor

Carla E. Förster is professor at the Universidad de Talca, where she directs the Department of evaluation and quality of teaching. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on assessment of and for learning and participated in various teacher update courses. She investigates in assessment practices of teachers and in cognitive stimulation strategies at early ages. She has participated in commissions about teacher evaluation and initial teacher training.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Power of Assessment in the Classroom

  • Book Subtitle: Improving Decisions to Promote Learning

  • Editors: Carla E. Förster

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45838-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45837-8Published: 02 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45838-5Published: 01 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2366-7672

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 261

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Education, general, Teaching and Teacher Education, Study and Learning Skills

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