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