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Reeves, Benjamin – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
Ethical capability is one of a suite of broad competencies that are recent inclusions in national and state curricula in Australia. Problems arise in how to support teachers to assess student progress in complex skill areas. Using methodology derived from the work of Griffin, this study investigated whether a criterion-referenced assessment…
Descriptors: Ethics, Guidelines, Criterion Referenced Tests, National Curriculum
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Sarah Davies – Design and Technology Education, 2023
The design and technology curriculum in England has gone through various policy changes since its introduction in the Education Reform Act of 1988. The 2014 policy revised the content to make it slimmer and outlining the essential core knowledge for Key Stage 1 to 3. Schools need to consider wider aspects of design and technology not included in…
Descriptors: Specialists, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods
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Yagnamurthy, Sreekanth – Curriculum Journal, 2017
There is a growing agreement among the academic community, in schools and among researchers, concerning the advantages of formative assessment and the limitations of large-scale assessment. In this paper, the school-based assessment reform of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) popularly known in India as continuous and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Loima, Jyrki – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
This is a qualitative case study of the parental feedback about participatory assessment done during the first year (2016) of the implementation of the reformed Finnish basic education curriculum. It covered grades 1-6 and was a first time to have a broader, tri-angulated teacher-student-parent assessment on learning and schooling. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Parent Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
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Van der Kleij, Fabienne Michelle; Cumming, Jacqueline Joy; Looney, Anne – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
Formative assessment is strongly advocated as a critical component of Australian teachers' work. This article examines the evolving policy expectations and support for teachers' formative assessment practices in the context of two recent Australian education reforms: the introduction of the first national curriculum and of new professional…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
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El Hassan, Karma; Baassiri, Mariam – Education 3-13, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the alignment between the fourth-grade summative classroom assessments and the 'Matter and Energy' unit in the Lebanese science curriculum using: content and cognitive levels. Summative assessments were collected from a sample of 17 schools. The alignment between the classroom assessments and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Alignment (Education), Summative Evaluation
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Blow, David; Myers, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In the high-stakes accountability English educational system, decisions made by government and agencies about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment drive school planning and actions. This paper analyses the drivers for the recent change to French German and Spanish GCSEs and highlights particular areas of the new specification which may damage the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Skourdoumbis, Andrew – Curriculum Journal, 2015
Recently, curriculum developments in Australia have seen the incorporation of functionalist "general capabilities" as essential markers of schooling, meaning that any pedagogical expression of classroom-based practice, including subsequent instruction, should entail the identification and development of operational general capabilities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
OECD Publishing, 2016
Thailand's education system stands at a crossroads. Significant investment has widened access to education and the country performs relatively well in international assessments compared with its peers. But the benefits have not been universally distributed and Thailand has not received the return on its spending on education that it might have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Educational Practices
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Voogt, Joke; Roblin, Natalie Pareja – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
National curricula need to change drastically to comply with the competences needed for the 21st century. In this paper eight frameworks describing 21st century competences were analysed. A comprehensive search for information about 21st century competences was conducted across the official websites of the selected frameworks, resulting in 32…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, International Studies, Educational Practices
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Cooper, Maria; Hedges, Helen; Dixon, Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Families play important roles in children's learning. Yet, teachers' values and beliefs may sway how families may participate in assessment of their child's learning within early childhood education. This paper reports on a qualitative case study in a New Zealand early childhood setting that explored teachers' views about involving families in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Dymoke, Sue – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Undertaken during a period when changes in the assessment of English in public examinations at 16+ were becoming embedded in classroom practice, this comparative research explores where poetry is located within the newly aligned examination assessment frameworks of New Zealand and England. It comments on how these frameworks are locally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Poetry, English Teachers
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Nargund-Joshi, Vanashri; Park Rogers, Meredith A.; Akerson, Valarie L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
In 2005 India introduced a new National Curriculum Framework aimed at providing a more constructivist approach to learning for all subjects. Previous research on the impact of curriculum reform in other countries (e.g., United States) concluded that for reform to be successful teachers' orientations toward teaching and learning must be considered…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Interviews
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Hall, Gareth – Technology Teacher, 2007
This article features the British Schools of America and describes the curriculum these schools offer. The British Schools of America offer a broad curriculum based on the International Primary Curriculum, the National Curriculum (England) and the International Baccalaureate, and focus on the whole development of the child, aiming to equip every…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education
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Davies, Martin R. – Educational Leadership, 1991
The National Curriculum is perhaps the most important element of the United Kingdom's Education Reform Act of 1988. Although there are many challenges in describing and assessing the skills, knowledge, and understanding that each child is expected to develop, the national curriculum's early implementation has won wide support. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, British National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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