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Williams, Anna H.; Johnston, Michael B.; Averill, Robin – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
Suitable execution of moderation policy is challenging but crucial for the trustworthiness and credibility of internal high-stakes assessment systems. In formal education, policies are rarely implemented as intended. Instead, they are "enacted" in ways influenced by mediating factors including the internal and external contexts of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Credibility
Koh, Kim H.; Tan, Charlene; Ng, Pak Tee – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Using Singapore as an example, we argue that schools need to equip and encourage teachers to adopt authentic assessment in teaching and learning so as to develop the students' higher-order thinking. The importance of teaching and assessing higher-order thinking in Singapore classrooms is encapsulated in the vision of "Thinking Schools"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Thinking Skills
Marshall, Jeffery H.; Chinna, Ung; Hok, Ung Ngo; Tinon, Souer; Veasna, Meung; Nissay, Put – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The global spread of national assessment testing activities, and the growing pressure to move beyond basic measures of participation in educational monitoring, means that student achievement measures are likely to become increasingly relevant indicators of systemic progress in the developing world. Using data from the CESSP project in Cambodia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods
McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This paper attempts to provide an overview of the key assumptions underpinning the "Whole School Evaluation" (WSE) inspection policy developed in Ireland since 2003. Beginning with a documentary analysis the paper argues that the capacity to generate useful self evaluative data in schools was seen as being at the heart of the model of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Focus Groups, Inspection
Rasmussen, Annette; Friche, Nanna – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2011
Performance pressure at both the institutional and individual level of secondary education has been identified as a pressure that is acknowledged all over Europe and raises questions about the extent to which agents in lower and upper secondary education interpret assessment in terms of either control or learning, or perhaps both. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Social Structure
Kelly, Anthony; Downey, Christopher – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Value-added measures can be used to allocate funding to schools, to identify those institutions in need of special attention and to underpin government guidance on targets. In England, there has been a tendency to include in these measures an ever-greater number of contextualising variables and to develop ever-more complex models that encourage…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance