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Brookhart, Susan M. – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
The United States education system depends on legislation and funding at the federal, state and local levels. Public understanding of assessment therefore is important to educational reform in the USA. Educational reformers often invoke assessment information as a reason for reform, typically by citing unacceptable achievement on some measure or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Public Opinion, Educational Indicators
Lendrum, Ann; Humphrey, Neil – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
Implementation refers to the process by which an intervention is put into practice. Research studies across multiple disciplines, including education, have consistently demonstrated that interventions are rarely implemented as designed and, crucially, that variability in implementation is related to variability in the achievement of expected…
Descriptors: Intervention, Foreign Countries, Fidelity, Evaluation Research
Newton, Paul E.; Whetton, Chris – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
One way to manage marking error, in a large-scale educational testing context, is to establish a mechanism through which appeals can be lodged. While, at one level, this seems to offer a straightforward technical solution to the problem of marking error, it can also result in unintended consequences, with political, social or educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Testing, Testing Problems, Scoring