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Raudiene, Irena; Kaminskiene, Lina; Cheng, Liying – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
This article presents a historical and contemporary account of Lithuania's national public education assessment system and its transformation since the country's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. We explore how the external examination system has developed in relation to ongoing curriculum reforms over the last 30 years,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Newton, Paul E.; Whetton, Chris – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
One way to manage marking error, in a large-scale educational testing context, is to establish a mechanism through which appeals can be lodged. While, at one level, this seems to offer a straightforward technical solution to the problem of marking error, it can also result in unintended consequences, with political, social or educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Testing, Testing Problems, Scoring
Ferrara, Steven F.; Thornton, Stephen J. – 1986
Two major issues related to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are explored: (1) the roles and responsibilities of federal and state education agencies in reformulating NAEP to facilitate comparisons among states; and (2) problems and solutions in aligning or accounting for differences between national assessment objectives and…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education