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ERIC Number: EJ320192
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Have National Assessments Made Us Any Wiser about 'Standards'?
Wood, Robert; Power, Colin
Comparative Education, v20 n3 p307-21 1984
An analysis of national programs for monitoring student achievement in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States finds that "national assessment" promotes a view of "standards" which is narrow, limiting, and definitely not conducive to the emergence of flexible and imaginative educational policies designed to cope with the future. (BRR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Objectives, National Competency Tests, National Programs, Standards
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Researchers; Policymakers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Assessment of Performance Unit (United Kingdom); Australia; Australian Studies in Student Performance; National Assessment of Educational Progress; United Kingdom; United States