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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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Balancing Tensions in Educational Policy Reforms: Large-Scale Implementation of Assessment for Learning in Norway
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Hopfenbeck, Therese N.; Flórez Petour, María Teresa; Tolo, Astrid – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study investigates how different stakeholders in Norway experienced a government-initiated, large-scale policy implementation programme on "Assessment for Learning" ("AfL"). Data were collected through 58 interviews with stakeholders in charge of the policy; Ministers of Education and members of the Directorate of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Assessment
Systems, Ideologies and History: A Three-Dimensional Absence in the Study of Assessment Reform Processes
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Flórez Petour, María Teresa – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This paper makes the case for the need to study assessment reform processes from a broader and more complex perspective that takes the historical, ideological and systemic aspects of assessment policies into account. It draws on a larger study to demonstrate how the understanding of Assessment for Learning (AfL) reforms is enriched by such a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy