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Ramirez, Al – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Policymakers are placing tremendous faith in assessment, a technology with many limitations. Assessment-driven improvement policy uses mandatory testing to leverage desired change, but it narrows the curriculum, punishes teachers for things beyond their control, expands bureaucracy, and does not work. Alternative strategies for school leaders are…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, National Standards, Program Implementation
Popham, W. James – Educational Leadership, 2006
Assessment for learning involves the frequent, continual use of both formal and informal classroom assessments. It can be as simple as requiring students to respond to a lesson-embedded, one-item quiz as a way of gauging student understanding of what is being taught. Ideally, this innovative approach to classroom assessment is based on a careful…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability

Pagett, Linda – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1996
The deficit model of assessment dominating education in postwar Britain largely disappeared in the 1970s. Inherent weaknesses of the 11-plus exam, which still survives, may explain current obsession with formative assessment. Record keeping, grading, and other difficulties with changes wrought by the 1988 Education Reform Act and the National…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
Henderson, Jan; And Others – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1982
A series of articles discusses requirements for optimum growth of horticulture education programs. Includes beginning a program, simulating working conditions, the need for mechanical skills, starting a business, and other areas to be considered for a successful horticultural program. (JOW)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Entrepreneurship, Horticulture, Program Development