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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Macinska, Sylwia – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
There has been controversy around the practice of providing accommodations, with some suggesting that they may give an unfair advantage rather than level the playing field. If that were the case, the assessment results of students with accommodations could be inflated, leading to a detrimental effect on the assessment's validity. This research…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, High Stakes Tests, Scores, Student Characteristics
Jerrim, John – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
There is growing concern about the mental wellbeing of young people, including how this is related to national tests. This is a particularly important policy issue in England, where it is claimed that the end of primary Key Stage 2 tests cause schools, pupils and teachers stress. I investigate this issue using data from the Millennium Cohort…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Well Being, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Scharaschkin, Alex – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
This issue's featured article, "Assessment and Learning: Fields Apart" (Baird, Andrich, Hopfenbeck, and Stobart 2017) raises issues that are of basic importance for the disciplines of assessment and teaching and learning theory. In this commentary, Alex Scharaschkin restricts his remarks to a few areas. He considers the idea of a…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Learning Theories, Test Theory, Psychometrics
Black, Beth; Suto, Irenka; Bramley, Tom – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
In this paper we develop an evidence-based framework for considering many of the factors affecting marker agreement in GCSEs and A levels. A logical analysis of the demands of the marking task suggests a core grouping comprising: (i) question features; (ii) mark scheme features; and (iii) examinee response features. The framework synthesises…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Grading, Scoring, High Stakes Tests