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Direct linkOzga, Jenny; Baird, Jo-Anne; Saville, Luke; Arnott, Margaret; Hell, Niclas – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic suspended established practices that, in normal times, are seen as central to the functioning of education systems. For example, in England, school closures led to the cancellation of national examinations in 2020, and their attempted replacement with an algorithmic model. Following public outcry about what were seen as the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, School Closing
Childs, Ann; Baird, Jo-Anne – Curriculum Journal, 2020
This article responds to two key concerns in science education: firstly, that policies designed to assess practical work have distorted its use as an effective pedagogical tool. Secondly, it addresses concerns about the lack of research on the assessment of practical work. The article analyses the policy trajectory for the assessment of science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Tests, Exit Examinations, High Stakes Tests
Pinot de Moira, Anne; Meadows, Michelle; Baird, Jo-Anne – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article addresses whether the introduction of end-of-course, linear General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations changed the socio-economic equity gap in England. The GCSE is a national examination offered in a wide range of subjects and taken by almost the entire 16-year-old age cohort. Between the years 2007 and 2014, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
Baird, Jo-Anne; Caro, Daniel H.; Hopfenbeck, Therese N. – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
Entirely predictable examinations are ones for which the questions are known in advance. Some assessments are designed this way, but in public examinations, predictability is subtler. Students familiarise themselves with the requirements broadly: likely topics that will come up, question formats and how to maximise their marks. If students can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Student Attitudes, Test Wiseness
Baird, Jo-Anne; Gray, Lena – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The ways in which examination standards are conceptualised and operationalised differently across nations has not been given sufficient attention. The international literature on standard-setting has been dominated by the psychometrics tradition. Broader conceptualisations of examination standards have been discussed in the literature in England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Position Papers, Educational Policy
Simpson, Lucy; Baird, Jo-Anne – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
Over recent years, the credibility of public examinations in England has increasingly come to the fore. Government agencies have invested time and money into researching public perceptions of the reliability and validity of examinations. Whilst such research overlaps into the conceptual domain of trust, trust in examinations remains an elusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Trust (Psychology), Test Reliability
