Educational Evaluation and Assessment - OD0133017

• Title: Educational Evaluation and Assessment
• Guaranteed by: Ústav výzkumu a rozvoje vzdělávání (41-UVRV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 0
• Hours per week, examination: 25/0, other [HT]
• Capacity: winter:20 / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jana Straková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jana Straková, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

The course will introduce the students to the framework of educational evaluation and assessment at all levels of the education system. It will focus on purposes of evaluation and assessment, performance criteria and the reference standards, forms and instruments, and the use of the results. The evaluation and assessment practices and quality assurance measures will be studied from a comparative perspective. Special attention will be devoted to international assessment surveys and their impacts on curriculum and national evaluation and assessment practices.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

OECD. (2013). Synergies for Better Learning. An International Perspective on Evaluation and Assessment. Paris: OECD.

Morris, A. (2011). Student Standardized Testing: Current Practices in OECD Countries and a Literature Review, OECD Education Working Paper No. 65, OECD Publishing.

Looney, J. W. (2011). Integrating Formative and Summative Assessment: Progress Toward a Seamless System? OECD Education Working Paper No. 58, OECD Publishing.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Presentation of an in-depth study of the selected topic.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Veronika Laufková, Ph.D. (18.11.2018)

Topics:

1.     Evaluation and Assessment Framework: Overview of components of the system of educational evaluation and assessment: student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation, education system evaluation. Relationships between particular components; challenges faced by developed countries with respect to educational evaluation and assessment.

2.     Student assessment: Summative and formative assessments and their different formats in different countries. National assessments, national examinations, longitudinal assessments; knowledge and skills assessed; performance criteria and the reference standards; use of the results, effects for students.

3.     Appraisal of teachers and school heads: Internal and external evaluation; improvement and accountability functions; performance criteria and the reference standards; instruments: e.g.classroom observation, self-evaluation, teacher portfolio, interview, student results or learning outcomes, teacher tests.

4.     School evaluation: Internal and external evaluation; improvement and accountability functions; performance criteria and the reference standards; evaluation processes and evaluators; methods; use of the results; school inspectorates.

5.     Education system evaluation: Approaches; objectives; responsibilities; reference standards; data sources: e.g. educational statistics, national and international student assessments, school assessments, policy reviews, ad-hoc reports commissioned on specific topics.

6.     International comparative assessment surveys: History of international assessment surveys; IEA surveys, OECD PISA, adult literacy surveys, cycles of studies; assessment domains; methodology and its developments; challenges. Future perspectives; measurement of 21^st century skills.

7.     Quality Assurance: Quality assurance as the process through which systems try to ensure that quality is achieved and continuously improved: policies, systems, procedures and practices that are designed to achieve, maintain or enhance quality in the school sector, and that rely on an evaluation and assessment process.