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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bonnet, Gerard – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
Given the new European institutional environment for education and training, policy and methodology for evaluation have become closely interwoven and stakes have been raised. This emerging situation calls for a robust reappraisal of existing comparative evaluation data and systems in the light of the perceived needs of European countries and of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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Gvirtz, Silvina; Larripa, Silvina – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
This article aims at displaying the main characteristics of the national evaluation system in Argentina based on the general framework of creation and development of national mechanisms for the evaluation of education in Latin America. The hypothesis for this study is that the creation and characteristics adopted by national systems of evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Brown, Gavin T. L. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
Teachers' conceptions of assessment can be understood in terms of their agreement or disagreement with four purposes to which assessment may be put, specifically, (a) improvement of teaching and learning, (b) school accountability, (c) student accountability, or (d) treating assessment as irrelevant. A 50-item Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Questionnaires