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Direct linkHoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination
Download full textRonis, Diane L. – 1999
On February 24, 1998, results from the final segment of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the most comprehensive mathematics and science study ever undertaken, were released. The resultant data brought into focus the dire need for a shift in the U.S. educational paradigm. A framework for a performance-based mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Curriculum
National Inst. on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking, and Management (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1998
To explore the policy implications of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking, and Management of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in the U.S. Department of Education, and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education held a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
