Assessment Reform in Science Fairness and Fear /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yung, Benny H.W (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Science & Technology Education Library, 31
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

The conclusions and recommendations made in the book are derived from a study of ten teachers in Hong Kong as they tried to change their practice following a reform of the Hong Kong assessment system. Hong Kong is simply a context that provided the opportunity to gather very rich and informative dat...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Peter Fensham. Foreword by Derek Hodson. Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The assessment reform
• 3. Teachers' enactment of the reform
• 4. Alan-the students' companion
• 5. Bob-the teacher with a mission
• 6. Carl-the teacher committed to all-round education
• 7. Dawn-the evolving teacher
• 8. Eddy-the money-hunter
• 9. Hugo-the examiner of a driving test
• 10. Ivor-the police fears to be scolded by his superior
• 11. John-the examination-driven teacher
• 12. Looking across the cases-a preliminary analysis
• 13. Three views of fairness
• 14. Teacher professionalism and policy interpretation
• 15. Ways of seeing and ways of enacting
• Appendix A: A study transversing three bodies of literature. Appendix B: Reflecting on the research methodology. References. Index.