Assessing Technology

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-335-23201-7
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

- How did the development of assessment practices influence the emerging technology curriculum? - How does practice in the UK compare to practice in the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia?For thirty years the UK has been evolving a distinctive technology curriculum. In part one of this book Richard Kimbell explores the thorny issues of assessment that have been raised by - and that helped to define - the technology curriculum in the UK. Richard writes as an 'insider' who was closely involved in the evolution of GCSE, in the battles that characterised the development of national curriculum assessment, and in the single biggest research venture in the assessment of technology - the Assessment of Performance Unit project of 1985-91. He analyses the successes and the mistakes and brings these together (in chapter 6) into a series of lessons that we should have learned about technology and about assessment.In part two, Richard presents four vignettes of curriculum and assessment practice in technology from the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia. In each case the education system, the technology curriculum and its associated assessment practices are outlined. Thereafter - in the final chapter, Richard brings together the lessons learned in the UK with those that might reasonably be learned from practice in the four case study nations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kimbell, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part one: Technology and its assessment in the UK 1965-1997
Assessment lays the foundations
The road to atomisation
Research lends a hand
the assessment of performance unit
A pivotal moment in history
technology as an entitlement in the National Curriculum
The shambles unravels
National Curriculum Assessment
Lessons we should have learned
Part two: International comparisons
The Federal Republic of Germany
USA
Taiwan
Australia
Reflections
Bibiography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Kimbell has taught technology in schools and been course director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses of teacher education. He directed the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) research project in design and technology, and in 1990 he founded the Technology Education Research Unit at Goldsmiths College London where he was appointed Professor of Technology Education. He has published widely, including work commissioned by the department of education, the Congress of the United States, UNESCO and NATO. He has written and presented television programmes and regularly lectures internationally.