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Direct linkDavid Rosenlund; Magnus Persson – Curriculum Journal, 2024
In the study presented in this article, the aim is to further the understanding regarding the differences between pupils (aged 15-16) from schools with low or high socio-economic status (SES), regarding the amount and diversity of content knowledge in history that they have acquired by the end of compulsory schooling. Following a definition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, History Instruction, Socioeconomic Status
Rosenlund, David – Curriculum Journal, 2021
The study examines how students in Grade 9 handle conceptual knowledge through the concept of continuity and change in the context of large-scale assessment. The research questions address: (1) what strategies the students use when they use the two parts of the concept concomitantly; and (2) any gender-related differences regarding these…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Equal Education, Gender Differences, Concept Formation
Re-Imagining Narrative Writing and Assessment: A Post-NAPLAN Craft-Based Rubric for Creative Writing
Michael D. Carey; Shelley Davidow; Paul Williams – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
According to creative writing pedagogies academic Susanne Gannon ("English in Australia, 54"(2), 43-56, 2019), and the Federal government-commissioned NAPLAN review (McGaw et al., 2020), NAPLAN has restricted how writing is taught in secondary schools. A NAPLAN-influenced structural approach to teaching writing has subsumed the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Creative Writing, Writing Evaluation, National Competency Tests
Andersson, Kristina – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
Marie Ståhl and Anita Hussénius have defined what discourses dominate national tests in chemistry for Grade 9 in Sweden by using feminist, critical didactic perspectives. This response seeks to expand the results in Ståhl and Hussénius's article "Chemistry inside an epistemological community box!--Discursive exclusions and inclusions in the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Gender Differences, Science Instruction, National Competency Tests
Boman, Björn – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The current article examined educational achievement at lower-secondary level in Sweden (Grade 9), using grades and national test results (NTR) as the dependent variables. Linear regressions and bivariate correlations indicated that the proportion of highly-educated individuals in each municipality was positively associated with grades and NTR and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Emily Frawley; Larissa McLean Davies – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the interface between high-stakes testing, disciplinary knowledge and teachers' pedagogy in English. The most prevalent standardized assessment form in the current Australian context is the National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) undertaken each year by students in Years 3, 5,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Sporre, Karin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to describe, critically analyse and discuss the Swedish system of assessing ethics education in compulsory school through national tests. The publicly available tests from 2013 for grades six and nine have been studied as have the assessment instructions for teachers. Staff responsible for the test construction have…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests
Salloum, Sara; BouJaoude, Saouma – Research in Science Education, 2019
The purpose of this research is to better understand the uses and potential of triadic dialogue (initiation-response-feedback) as a dominant discourse pattern in test-driven environments. We used a Bakhtinian dialogic perspective to analyze interactions among high-stakes tests and triadic dialogue. Specifically, the study investigated (a) the…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Cognitive Processes, Science Teachers, Grade 8
Download full textBrownlow, Luke – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2021
There is significant research addressing identities in mathematics focusing on school children and maximizing testing scores. However, mathematics confidence in preservice teachers is something that needs further attention as they will have foundational roles in students developing lifelong mathematics identities. Hence, mathematics confidence in…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Self Concept, Preservice Teachers
Bansilal, Sarah – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
The introduction of the Annual National Assessment (ANA) programme by the South African education department was met with much resistance from unions with some stating that it is not matched well to the curriculum. In this small-scale study, I compare the differences in outcomes between the internal summative assessment and the ANA for Grade 9…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9, Secondary School Mathematics
Sundqvist, Pia; Wikström, Peter; Sandlund, Erica; Nyroos, Lina – Language Testing, 2018
The present paper looks at the issue of standardization in L2 oral testing. Whereas external examiners are frequently used globally, some countries opt for test-takers' own teachers as examiners instead. In the present study, Sweden is used as a case in point, with a focus on the mandatory, high-stakes, summative, ninth-grade national test in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Standards, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Hobbs, Robert Maurice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers can use culturally relevant pedagogical strategies and technologies as emerging tools to improve students' problem-solving skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate and assess the effectiveness of culturally specific computer-based instructional tasks on ninth-grade African American mathematics students. This study tried to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, National Competency Tests, Test Construction, Maps
Gross, Paul R. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2005
The mission of this review is to appraise the new draft NAEP science framework and to determine whether it is up to snuff. This is an evaluation of the September 30, 2005, draft document, Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (Framework), developed for the National Assessment Governing Board. The criteria is…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, National Competency Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Science Instruction
