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Direct linkDe 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
Black, Paul – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The preceding articles in this issue describe a diverse range of projects which had in common the aim of implementing or improving the practice of formative assessment, and thereby to secure some of the benefits attributed to it. This article attempts to set up a framework within which each of the different studies may be located and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Role, Evaluation Needs
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
Wylie, E. Caroline; Lyon, Christine J. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The paper examines the breadth and quality of formative assessment implementation of 202 mathematics and science teachers who participated in a two-year, school-based professional development programme that focused on formative assessment. Results are triangulated using three sources of data: baseline and end-of-Year 2 data from an annual survey,…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Educational Quality
Hayward, Louise – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
Scotland, in common with many countries internationally, has been learning how to align ideas from research with policy and practice. This article considers what Scotland learned from large-scale evaluations of its Assessment is for Learning (AifL) programme and the extent to which this evidence was used to inform future learning within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Curriculum Development, Alignment (Education)
Jonsson, Anders; Lundahl, Christian; Holmgren, Anders – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study reports on a large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a Swedish municipality. The implementation was founded on two principles: (1) teaching should be informed by educational research; (2) to be successful teachers' professional development needs to be based in everyday classroom practice. From these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Research, Instructional Innovation
DeLuca, Christopher; Klinger, Don; Pyper, Jamie; Woods, Judy – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The purpose of this research was to examine the implementation of a professional learning project aimed at building educators' knowledge and skills in assessment for learning (AfL) within two school districts in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, the research examined the value of a two-tier "Instructional Rounds" (IR) professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Assessment, School Districts
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
Ratnam-Lim, Christina Tong Li; Tan, Kelvin Heng Kiat – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
Singapore's education system has often been characterised as exam-oriented. This paper describes efforts ("windmills") made by the Government to constructively respond to the "winds of change" in the education system. A committee called the Primary Education Review and Implementation (PERI) Committee was appointed to study…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
