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Frans, Niek; Post, W. J.; Oenema-Mostert, C. E.; Minnaert, A. E. M. G. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2020
Standardised tests play an important role in early childhood (EC) education in many countries. Although teachers' conceptions largely determine whether and how these instruments are used, research on this topic is scarce. As a result, factors that influence conceptions of standardised testing have remained largely unexplored. To examine teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Standardized Tests
Moss, Gemma – Institute of Education - London, 2020
This briefing note considers the place for statutory testing in primary schools during 2020-21, in the light of the COVID crisis. The English system of primary statutory assessment, culminating in SATs tests in Year 6, was suspended during the 2020 lockdown. Yet many questions remain about how primary assessment should resume, given that COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Students, School Closing
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Torrance, Harry – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2018
There are sound educational and examining reasons for the use of coursework assessment and practical assessment of student work by teachers in schools for purposes of reporting examination grades. Coursework and practical work test a range of different curriculum goals to final papers and increase the validity and reliability of the result.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Achievement Tests, Accountability
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Koch, Martha J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2014
Implications of the multiple-use of accountability assessments for the process of validation are examined. Multiple-use refers to the simultaneous use of results from a single administration of an assessment for its intended use and for one or more additional uses. A theoretical discussion of the issues for validation which emerge from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Use, Accountability, Validity
Tobin, Mollie; Lietz, Petra; Nugroho, Dita; Vivekanandan, Ramya; Nyamkhuu, Tserennadmid – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Not much is known about the ways in which assessment data have actually been used in education policy to date. Understanding the role of assessments in informing system-level decision-making is a first step towards helping stakeholders improve the design and usefulness of assessments. Moreover, this understanding can help to further discussions…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Measurement, Decision Making, Data Analysis
Slater, Liz – CfBT Education Trust, 2013
Monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance in their various forms are seen as being one of the foundation stones of high-quality education systems. De Grauwe, writing about "school supervision" in four African countries in 2001, linked the decline in the quality of basic education to the cut in resources for supervision and support.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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Koch, Martha J.; DeLuca, Christopher – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
In this article we rethink validation within the complex contexts of high-stakes assessment. We begin by considering the utility of existing models for validation and argue that these models tend to overlook some of the complexities inherent to assessment use, including the multiple interpretations of assessment purposes and the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Use, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
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Peterson, Elizabeth R.; Irving, S. Earl – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated secondary school students' conceptions of assessment and feedback. Five focus groups were conducted with 41 Year 9 and 10 students (equivalent to Grades 8 and 9 in other countries) from 4 diverse New Zealand schools. Students said that assessment was useful because it led to information and feedback. This information, in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Student Improvement, Teacher Improvement, Feedback (Response)
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Zuzovsky, Ruth – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2002
Discusses criticisms of international educational studies and describes ways in which such studies can be used advantageously for diagnosis, identification of "what works," and monitoring and accountability. Presents examples of these categories of use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, International Studies
Torrance, Harry – 1982
Case studies in six schools in two school districts were used to document the practice of school-based examining in action: identifying the reasons why teachers use it, the problems they encounter, and the various pay-offs which arise. Four ways of using school-based examining were identified: to ease externally-imposed organizational change; to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Foreign Countries, School Districts, Secondary Education
Earl, Lorna M. – Education Canada, 1999
Examines dilemmas of educational accountability and why large-scale assessment of student achievement has come to dominate educational reform policy. Provides a brief history of large-scale assessment in education in Canada. Looks at both expected and unexpected consequences of large-scale assessment and calls for educators and politicians to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Raham, Helen – Education Canada, 1999
School systems have recently experienced a dramatic shift toward the use of large-scale assessment to improve school performance. Discusses the ways in which external assessment may benefit education, the need for multiple measures of various dimensions of school success, and guidelines for using assessment to create a dynamic cycle of continuous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Benefits
McEwen, Nelly – Education Canada, 1999
Examines international assessments, like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, and what they can tell about how well Canadian students perform relative to other participating jurisdictions and how well jurisdictions do on different assessments at different points in time. Discusses uses of international comparisons to inform…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
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McEwen, Nelly, Ed. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1995
Five articles in this special issue present the approaches to accountability found in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland, provinces that represent 85% of all Canadian elementary and secondary school students. The articles are then discussed by representatives of four national Canadian educational associations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Educational Research
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Rapple, Brendan A. – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1991
Reviews the origin, practice, and effects of the "payment by results" law in late nineteenth-century England, in which elementary education was funded on the basis of students' examination results. Argues that such a system of educational accountability severely hampered development of English and Welsh elementary education. (PAA)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational History
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