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Klenowski, Val; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High stakes testing in Australia was introduced in 2008 by way of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Currently, every year all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. In 2010 the…
Descriptors: Evidence, National Curriculum, Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests
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Arain, Faisal Manzoor; Tipu, Syed Awais Ahmad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
Emerging contractual delivery systems, collaborative partnerships, new management initiatives, and global product markets require professionals and students to have a broader awareness of construction methods and project management issues. This paper presents the state of the project management education in Pakistan. The analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Administrator Education, Foreign Countries, Course Content
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van Ackeren, Isabell; Block, Rainer; Klein, E. Dominique; Kuhn, Svenja M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In this article we present results from a study investigating the impact of three state exit exam systems on teaching and learning in college-preparatory schools. The study compares one state with a traditionally more centralized exam regime, one state that is more de-centralized and one state that has recently switched to more centralized…
Descriptors: Testing, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Program Effectiveness