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National Testing in Schools
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including: media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance pressures within school systems and on schools effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged. Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.
Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
What are students learning? Throughout the world, governments striving to improve educational quality are turning to national assessments to provide this much-needed information in key curriculum areas. The capacity for carrying out national assessments has grown remarkably in recent years, but it has not been matched by widespread use of their findings. This book seeks to maximize an appreciation for the value of such data and to assist countries in exploiting the knowledge that national assessments yield.'Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement' identifies the main factors affecting the use of national assessment findings. These include the political context i...
Implementing a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Implementation of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement focuses on the practical tasks involved in running a large-scale national assessment program. It has four parts. Part I provides an overview of the tasks involved - how the essential activities of an assessment are organized and implemented, the personnel and resources that are required, and the tasks that follow the collection of data. In Part II, a methodology for selecting a sample of students that will be representative of students in the education system is presented. Principles underlying sampling are described, as well as step-by-step procedures that can be implemented in nearly any national assessment. An accompanying...
Educational Objectives and National Assessment
A survey of technical claims made for improvements in assessment, focusing on the GCSE, the National Curriculum and the National Vocational Qualifications in the UK, with discussion of the policy agenda within which the improvements are introduced and of the ways in which the focus on assessment results threatens to narrow the debate on school effectiveness and educational standards. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement is the second in the National Assessments of Educational Achievement series. It is designed to help build capacity in carrying out technically adequate assessments of national levels of student achievement. It introduces readers to the activities involved in the development of achievement tests, and includes developing an assessment framework, writing multiple choice and constructed response type items, pretesting, producing test booklets, and handscoring items. A section on questionnaire construction feat.
Policy Issues in National Assessment
This book is the work of the British Educational Research Association Assessment Policy Task Group who produced two of the four papers featured. They all address the reasons behind current UK assessment policy and how it might be improved.
Risk Assessment in the Federal Government
The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume evaluates past efforts to develop and use risk assessment guidelines, reviews the experience of regulatory agencies with different administrative arrangements for risk assessment, and evaluates various proposals to modify procedures. The book's conclusions and recommendations can be applied across the entire field of environmental health.
