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Direct linkBroadfoot, Patricia; Black, Paul – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
The completion of the first ten years of this journal is an occasion for review and reflection. The main issues that have been addressed over the ten years are summarized in four main sections: Purposes, International Trends, Quality Concerns and Assessment for Learning. Each of these illustrates the underlying significance of the themes of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Student Evaluation, Educational Trends, Evaluation Methods
Cumming, Joy J.; Maxwell, Graham S. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
This paper explores ten common themes concerning assessment practice in Australian education across the six states and two territories. The themes are: (1) a strong curriculum base influencing assessment, (2) the incorporation of school-based assessment in all certification, (3) preference for standards-referenced assessment, (4) respect for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Evaluation Methods, Profiles, Foreign Countries
Firestone, William A.; Monfils, Lora; Schorr, Roberta Y. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
As testing becomes more prevalent as a policy tool in the Anglo-Saxon world, debates continue as to whether it supports central reforms of instruction or leads to a kind of 'teaching to the test' that invalidates results and undermines more challenging instruction. This paper reports on a three-year study of mathematics testing of nine-year-olds…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Student Evaluation
Woodward, Helen; Nanlohy, Philip – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
With the pre-service student portfolio process and product well in hand in a paper-based format, in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) (B.Ed. Primary) at University of Western Sydney (UWS), new horizons have presented themselves. These new possibilities are facilitated but not driven by developments in Information and Communication Technology…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Preservice Teacher Education, Portfolio Assessment, Foreign Countries
Baird, Jo-Anne; Greatorex, Jackie; Bell, John F. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
Marking reliability is purported to be produced by having an effective community of practice. No experimental research has been identified which attempts to verify empirically the aspects of a community of practice that have been observed to produce marking reliability. This research outlines what that community of practice might entail and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Interrater Reliability
Grimley, Michael; Morris, Sue; Rayner, Stephen; Riding, Richard – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
This paper reports the construction of a teacher rating instrument designed to monitor the social and emotional development of school age children and young people (4-17 years). The instrument was developed by reviewing previously implemented checklists to build an extensive list of behavioural and emotional criteria and through the use of focus…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Students, Student Behavior, Student Development
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
