12338 (v.2) SMEC 712 - Assessment and Evaluation

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Area:	Science and Mathematics Education Centre
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Assessment topics include shifts to current practices, myths of teaching and testing, needed changes, peer assessment, self assessment and portfolios. Evaluation topics cover new directions, formative and summative evaluation, goal-free evaluation, utilisation of evaluation results, responsive evaluation, naturalistic evaluation, strengths and shortcomings of science, mathematics and technology curricula, ethnography in evaluation, and case studies.