From testing to productive student learning : implementing formative assessment in confucian-heritage settings / David Carless.

"First published in 2011 . First issued in paperback ed 2012."

"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 testing and learning from alternative perspectives to the dominant literature from the major Anglophone countries. It develops the notion of contextually grounded formative assessment practices by analyzing data from schools in the Confucian-heritage setting of Hong Kong."--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Potentials and Pitfalls in Assessment -- Summative and Formative Assessment: Building Productive Relationships -- Testing and Assessment: Selection, Learning and Social Control -- Education and Assessment in Hong Kong -- 'Restricted' and 'Extended' Formative Assessment: Towards Contextually Grounded Models -- Test Follow-Up as a Formative Assessment Strategy -- Peer Learning and Assessment -- Teacher Change and Formative Assessment -- Conclusions and Implications: Ways Forward for Formative -- Assessment.