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Direct linkFeniger, Yariv; Israeli, Mirit; Yehuda, Smadar – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
The use of standardised tests as a central tool in education policy has in recent decades become a common feature of many national education systems. In 2002 the Israeli Ministry of Education introduced new mandatory state tests for primary and middle schools. The article describes the adoption of these low-stakes tests and assesses their impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Primary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Ekvall, Ulla – Education Inquiry, 2013
This study focuses, from a bilingual perspective, on how a Swedish national test is intended to promote critical literacy and language development in line with related aims in syllabuses for Swedish and Swedish as a second language. The material consists of reading and writing assignments and prescribed classroom preparations (including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, National Competency Tests, Bilingual Education
Reed, Deborah K.; Cummings, Kelli D.; Schaper, Andrew; Biancarosa, Gina – Review of Educational Research, 2014
Recent studies indicate that examiners make a number of intentional and unintentional errors when administering reading assessments to students. Because these errors introduce construct-irrelevant variance in scores, the fidelity of test administrations could influence the results of evaluation studies. To determine how assessment fidelity is…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Reading Tests, Student Evaluation, Reading Research
