Evaluation of Knowledge and Educational Outcomes

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for attending the course.

Course objectives: Understanding the basic concepts regarding educational standards and competencies, different models of external and internal monitoring of student performance, their assets and limitations, as well as the use of results for development of education policy.

Course description: Outcome (student performance) based education, Concept of educational standards, Standards of educational performance, Educational competencies and contents, National student performance assessment, International student performance assessment (PISA and TIMSS), National exams, Using results of national and international assessment in educational development, Teachers’ grading of students.

Learning Outcomes: Understanding the basic concepts in the field of educational standards and life competencies of children and youth, recognition of different models of external and internal monitoring of student performance, understanding their role in the development of education policy.

Evaluation of Knowledge and Educational Outcomes

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for attending the course.

Course objectives: Understanding the basic concepts regarding educational standards and competencies, different models of external and internal monitoring of student performance, their assets and limitations, as well as the use of results for development of education policy.

Course description: Outcome (student performance) based education, Concept of educational standards, Standards of educational performance, Educational competencies and contents, National student performance assessment, International student performance assessment (PISA and TIMSS), National exams, Using results of national and international assessment in educational development, Teachers’ grading of students.

Learning Outcomes: Understanding the basic concepts in the field of educational standards and life competencies of children and youth, recognition of different models of external and internal monitoring of student performance, understanding their role in the development of education policy.

Literature/Reading:

• Havelka, N., Baucal, A., Plut, D., Matović, N., Pavlović-Babić, D. (2002). Sistem za praćenje i vrednovanje kvaliteta obrazovanja: predlog promena i inovacija. U: T. Kovač-Cerović, L. Levkov (Eds), Kvali
• Havelka, N., Hebib, E., Baucal, A. (2003). Ocenjivanje za razvoj učenika. Ministarstvo za prosvetu i sporta Republike Srbije i Centar za evaluaciju, Beograd
• Rychen, D.S., & Salganik, L.H. (2001). Defining and Selecting Key Competencies. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Gottingen (www.portal-stat.admin.ch/deseco/index.html) – odabrani delovi
• ------ (2004). Learning for Tommorrow’s World – First Results from PISA 2003. OECD, Paris (www.oecd.org/pisa) – odabrani delovi
• Mullis, I.V.S., Martin, M.O., Gonzales, E.J., & Chrostowski, S.J. (2004). TIMSS 2003 International Mathematics Report. TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (isc.
• Martin, M.O., Mullis, I.V.S., Gonzales, E.J., & Chrostowski, S.J. (2004). TIMSS 2003 International Science Report. TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (isc.bc.e
• ----- (2001). Common European Framework of Reference for Language: Learning, teaching, assessment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
• Kellaghan, T., & Greaney, V. (2001). The Globalisation of Assessment in the 20th Century. Assessment in Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, 87-102
• Lowe, J. (2000). International Examinations: the new credentialism and reproduction of advantage in a globalising world. Assessment in Education, Vol. 7, No. 3, 363-377
• Pavlović Babić, D., Baucal, A. (2011): The Big Improvement in PISA 2009 Reading Achievements in Serbia. CEPS Journal, 2011, 1(3), 31-52
• Baucal, A. (2013). Ne samo za tržište. Reč, 83, 177-188.
• Baucal, A., Pavlović-Babić, D. (2011). Nauči me da mislim, nauči me da učim. PISA 2009 u Srbiji, Institut za psihologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, Centar za primenjenu psihologiju, Beograd
• Pavlović Babić, D. & Baucal, A. (2012). Mogućnosti i prepreke u kreiranju obrazovne politike zasnovane na rezultatima pisa testiranja – iskustva u srbiji, regionu i svetu (str. 27-40). D. Trivić, D. B