Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment In Higher Education: A Guide For The Perplexed (Counterpoints)

This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the individual ongoing assessment of learning throughout a course as well as the final synthesis of individual learning in the course. Self-assessment and self-evaluation are presented here as a means to help students and teachers reinvent the learning process as co-constructed, powered by evidence and agency in order to lift thinking beyond the mere attainment of an end-point grade; to help students own their learning in new ways they may not have experienced before; to think about teaching and learning that will carry them beyond their formal schooling years; and to value new questions as evidence of learning.

• • Author: Judith McVarish, Catherine Elizabeth Milne
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Feb 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 154 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433108348
• • ISBN-13: 9781433108341