Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy

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Valuing Assessment in Science Education: An Introductory Framework, Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Alister Jones, Richard Gunstone.- International Assessments of Science Learning: Their Positive and Negative Contributions to Science Education, Peter J. Fensham.- International, National and Classroom Assessment: Potent Factors in Shaping what Counts in School Science, Alister Jones, Cathy Buntting.- Improving Science Education: Why Science Matters, Robin Millar.- Towards an Authentically Assessed Science Curriculum, Peter J. Fensham, Leonie J. Rennie.- Aligning Science Curriculum Renewal Efforts and Assessment Practices, Wilmad Kuiper, Elvira Folmer, Wout Ottevanger.- Content to be Assessed Across the History of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Audrey B. Champagne.- The Influence of Assessment on Moderating Science Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Deborah Corrigan, Rebecca Cooper.- Issues in Teaching for and Assessment of Creativity in Mathematics and Science, Mike Askew.- Science Teachers' Understanding of the College Entrance Examination in a Climate of National Curriculum Reform in China, Hongming Ma.- Pedagogy in Theory and in Practice: Formative and Summative Assessments in Classrooms and in Systems, Paul Black.- An Assessment Perezhivanie: Building an Assessment Pedagogy for, with and of Early Childhood Science Learning, Marilyn Fleer, Gloria Quinones.- Classroom Assessment: Making Space for Diversity, Bronwen Cowie.- Formative Assessment as a Cltural Practice: The Use of Written Formative Assessment in Samoan Science Classrooms, Desmond Lee Hang, Beverley Bell.- The Disparity Between Achievement and Engagement in Students' Science Learning: A Case of East-Asian Regions, Jinwoong Song.- Embedding Assessment Within Primary School Science: A Case Study, Angela Fitzgerald, Richard Gunstone.- Formative Assessment in Learning to Teach Science, Pernilla Nilsson, John Loughran.- Changing Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms, Chris Harrison.- Assessment: Where to Next?, Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Richard Gunstone, Alister Jones.