Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework....Pages 1-9
International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education....Pages 11-31
International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping What Counts in School Science....Pages 33-53
Improving Science Education: Why Assessment Matters....Pages 55-68
Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum....Pages 69-100
Aligning Science Curriculum Renewal Efforts and Assessment Practices....Pages 101-118
Content to be Assessed Across the History of the National Assessment of Educational Progress....Pages 119-151
The Influence of Assessment on Moderating Science Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices....Pages 153-168
Issues in Teaching for and Assessment of Creativity in Mathematics and Science....Pages 169-182
Science Teachers’ Understanding of the College Entrance Examination in a Climate of National Curriculum Reform in China....Pages 183-205
Pedagogy in Theory and in Practice: Formative and Summative Assessments in Classrooms and in Systems....Pages 207-229
An Assessment Perezhivanie: Building an Assessment Pedagogy for, with and of Early Childhood Science Learning....Pages 231-247
Classroom Assessment: Making Space for Diversity....Pages 249-265
Formative Assessment as a Cultural Practice: The Use of Written Formative Assessment in Samoan Science Classrooms....Pages 267-284
The Disparity Between Achievement and Engagement in Students’ Science Learning: A Case of East-Asian Regions....Pages 285-306
Embedding Assessment Within Primary School Science: A Case Study....Pages 307-324
Formative Assessment in Learning to Teach Science....Pages 325-345
Changing Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms....Pages 347-358
Assessment: Where to Next?....Pages 359-364
Back Matter....Pages 365-376