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Peer reviewedWilbrink, Ben – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1997
The historical roots of current educational assessment practices are traced, exploring assessment in the generic sense rather than as educational measurement. Our culture of assessment developed long ago, predating the history of educational measurement. Current inefficiencies in education and faults in school life may have grown with this…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational History
Download full textGlaser, Robert; Silver, Edward – 1994
Some of the deficiencies and abuses associated with past testing practices are reviewed, and some of the present and future possibilities for educational assessment are explored. At this time, assessment and testing in American schools are caught between the rhetoric of reform and the intransigence of long-established practices. Use of measurement…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Improvement
Christensen, James E., Ed.; Fisher, James E., Ed. – International Journal of Educology, 1991
The "International Journal of Educology" publishes works that examine the educational process from an educological perspective. The term educology means knowledge about education and has been in use since the seminal work in educology by L. W. Harding in the 1950s. The educological perspective is inclusive of scientific, praxiological,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Editorials, Educational History
Peer reviewedFeuer, Michael J.; Fulton, Kathleen – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1994
Findings are summarized from a comparative analysis of education-examination practices in selected European and Asian countries. The review of testing practices in other countries reveals that these practices are in transition in most countries. A central lesson is that changing teaching can lead to changes in testing. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations
Gipps, Caroline – 1994
The United Kingdom has a history of performance assessment even for accountability purposes, as the public examinations (standardized achievement tests) at age 16 demonstrate. What the country does not have is a strong history in the area of equity. Debate and policy-making, when concerned at all, have been concentrated on equality of opportunity,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, British National Curriculum, Educational Assessment
Direct linkHaertel, Edward H.; Herman, Joan L. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
In this article, the authors describe various rationales for accountability testing programs over the past century. This history forms the backdrop for current test-driven reforms, including Public Law 107-110, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which was signed into law in January 2002. The goals of the authors are first, to illustrate…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing Programs, Federal Legislation, Testing
