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He, Qingping; Anwyll, Steve; Glanville, Matthew; Opposs, Dennis – Research Papers in Education, 2014
Since 2010, the whole national cohort Key Stage 2 (KS2) National Curriculum test in science in England has been replaced with a sampling test taken by pupils at the age of 11 from a nationally representative sample of schools annually. The study reported in this paper compares the performance of different subgroups of the samples (classified by…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Sampling, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis
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He, Qingping; Hayes, Malcolm; Wiliam, Dylan – Research Papers in Education, 2013
The accuracy of the results of the national tests in English, mathematics and science taken by 11-year olds in England has been a matter of much debate since their introduction in 1994, with estimates of the proportion of students incorrectly classified varying from 10 to 30%. Using live data from the 2009 and 2010 administration of the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Accuracy, Classification