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Hamilton, Mary – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
This article analyses the role of Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) in teachers' work in the "Skills for Life" sector. It shows how ILPs, originally a means of formative assessment, have become part of a system of performance indicators and function as a key mediating mechanism between local interactions and system goals. The article…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Ethnography, Accountability, Educational Indicators
Hamilton, Mary; Merrifield, Juliet – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
In this chapter the authors' primary aim is to describe the general workings of the system of adult literacy and learning as it exists in the United Kingdom today. To better illuminate that system, they take a little time delving into its past--that is, showing how it arrived at its current state of operation. A secondary aim is to compare and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy