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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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The Promise and Reality of Formative Assessment Practice in a Continuous Assessment Scheme: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
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De Lisle, Jerome – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
Continuous Assessment (CA) systems are externally directed, curriculum-based assessment schemes used for both summative and formative purposes within classrooms. CA has been implemented as national policy in several postcolonial developing countries and is believed to hold great promise for improving education outcomes. This theory-driven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Progress Monitoring, Mixed Methods Research
Differential Outcomes in High-Stakes Eleven Plus Testing: The Role of Gender, Geography, and Assessment Design in Trinidad and Tobago
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De Lisle, Jerome; Smith, Peter; Keller, Carol; Jules, Vena – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High-stakes placement testing at eleven plus remains a central and constant feature of education systems in the Anglophone Caribbean. In the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Eleven Plus has been retained well into the era of universal secondary education, with a perceived legitimacy founded on the belief that examinations provide the fairest…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Geography, Testing, Foreign Countries