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Marlow, Ruth; Norwich, Brahm; Ukoumunne, Obioha C.; Hansford, Lorraine; Sharkey, Siobhan; Ford, Tamsin – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) arose from a government drive to increase the amount of teacher-based assessment within school and to make this consistent across schools. We conducted semi-structured interviews with head teachers to gain insight into how their schools applied APP and we compared the APP levels for English and Maths, provided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Literacy, Numeracy
Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
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Altschuld, James W.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
A mail survey completed by 62 administrators in colleges of education in Ohio provides descriptive and correlational results about the nature of utilization of needs assessment. A moderately high multiple correlation is found for attitude and involvement, but other independent variables contribute minimally to prediction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Correlation, Educational Assessment