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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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Chen, Qiuxian; May, Lyn; Klenowski, Val; Kettle, Margaret – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
The "College English Curriculum Requirements," announced by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2007, recommended the inclusion of formative assessment into the existing summative assessment framework of College English. This policy had the potential to fundamentally change the nature of assessment and its role in the teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, English (Second Language)
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Wyatt-Smith, Claire; Klenowski, Val – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
This paper engages with debates about whether comprehensive prior specification of criteria and standards is sufficient for informed professional judgement. A preoccupation has emerged with the specificity and explication of criteria intended to regulate judgement. This has resulted in criteria compliance in the use of defined standards to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Standards, Evaluative Thinking, Elementary School Teachers
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Klenowski, Val; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High stakes testing in Australia was introduced in 2008 by way of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Currently, every year all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are assessed on the same days using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. In 2010 the…
Descriptors: Evidence, National Curriculum, Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests
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Wyatt-Smith, Claire; Klenowski, Val; Gunn, Stephanie – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
There is a strong quest in several countries including Australia for greater national consistency in education and intensifying interest in standards for reporting. Given this, it is important to make explicit the intended and unintended consequences of assessment reform strategies and the pressures to pervert and conform. In a policy context that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Teachers