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Carless, David – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Formative Evaluation, Educational Testing
Li, Jin – Cambridge University Press, 2012
Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr. Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship