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Download full textBethan Burge; Louise Benson – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2024
Since its introduction in 2017, NFER has been contracted by Ofqual to develop, deliver and analyse the results of the National Reference Test (NRT) in English and Maths. The NRT is administered annually and shows if student performance in English and maths at GCSE level has changed from year-to-year. This year, more than 13,000 Year 11 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Tests, English
Bethan Burge; Louise Benson – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2023
Since its introduction in 2017, NFER has been contracted by Ofqual to develop, deliver and analyse the results of the National Reference Test (NRT) in English and maths. The NRT is administered annually and shows if student performance in English and maths at GCSE level has changed from year-to-year. This year, more than 13,000 Year 11 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Tests, English
Bethan Burge; Louise Benson – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
Since its introduction in 2017, NFER has been contracted by Ofqual to develop, deliver and analyse the results of the National Reference Test (NRT) in English and maths. The NRT is administered annually and shows if student performance in English and maths at GCSE level has changed from year-to-year. This year, around 13,000 Year 11 students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Tests, English
Direct linkKimberly Denise Herndon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined differences in participation or nonparticipation in an ACT preparation course, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on ACT scores. Practice ACT scores were used as a covariate to control for individual differences in student scores. Participants consisted of 264 students from one graduating class at a large high school in…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, College Entrance Examinations, Test Preparation, Racial Factors
Peer reviewedLinda Prentice; Gideon Twum – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Can a class assignment covering the reading help students do better in an introductory chemistry class for nonmajors? Two sections of the same course have been compared where one section had a reading assignment that "forced" the students to interact with the text while the other class had the typical homework, quiz assignments, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Textbooks
Hoadley, 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
