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Direct linkBaker, Eva L. – Educational Researcher, 2016
This article investigates the persistent and change elements of educational testing and assessment from 1920 to the present day. I show by examining the addresses and texts of American Educational Research Association presidents a continuing focus on schools, from early experiments and development up through applications in accountability systems.…
Descriptors: Research, Educational Testing, Presidents, Professional Associations
Iipinge, Sakaria M.; Kasanda, Choshi D. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
Aligning curriculum change and assessment reforms has been a topic of great concern in Namibia for over the past 23 years. This is because during the pre-colonial period and continuing in post-independence Namibia, national examinations have been used mainly for the certification and selection of learners at Junior and Senior secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Articulation (Education), Curriculum, Educational Change
Bramley, Tom; Gill, Tim – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The rank-ordering method for standard maintaining was designed for the purpose of mapping a known cut-score (e.g. a grade boundary mark) on one test to an equivalent point on the test score scale of another test, using holistic expert judgements about the quality of exemplars of examinees' work (scripts). It is a novel application of an old…
Descriptors: Scores, Psychometrics, Measurement Techniques, Foreign Countries
Takayama, Keita – Comparative Education, 2008
Using the political-economic analysis of globalisation and education as well as a culturalist approach to education policy borrowing, the paper analyses the role of local actors, specifically, national newspapers and the Ministry of Education, in mediating the potentially homogenising curricular policy pressure of globalisation exerted through the…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach
Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of results from the January 1997 administration of the Mathematics 30 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of results from the January 1997 administration of the Mathematics 33 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1998
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of the results from the June 1998 administration of the Mathematics 33 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of the results from the January 1997 administration of the Chemistry 30 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of the results from the January 1997 administration of the Biology 30 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of results from the January 1997 administration of the Physics 30 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Physics
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1997
The summary information contained in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public with an overview of results from the January 1997 administration of the Science 30 Diploma Examination by the Alberta Department of Education in Canada. This information is most helpful when used with the detailed school and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, General Science, High Schools
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
The validity of interpretations of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) achievement levels is evaluated by focusing on evidence regarding three types of discrepancies: (1) between standards; (2) among descriptions of achievement levels; and (3) between assessments and content standards. All of these discrepancies raise serious…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys
Peer reviewedRamseier, Erich – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2001
Presents a number of analyses based on the results of the Third International Science and Mathematics Study (TIMSS) in Switzerland. Results show that it's possible to reflect the complicated structure of Swiss secondary education in a sampling design and that there's little growth in mathematics literacy in Swiss upper secondary school students.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Sampling
Power, Colin; And Others – 1982
An external evaluation of the impact of the Australian Studies in Student Performance (ASSP) Project on schools and systems is reported. The presented chapters follow in sequence the development of ASSP. The first chapter places the Australian Project in an international context and outlines the major questions dealt with in this evaluation.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Expectation, Foreign Countries, National Programs
Atkin, J. Myron; Black, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
An innovation-focused Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study of 13 nations participating in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) found universal unhappiness with the state of mathematics and science education. There was no link among successful test scores, improvement goals, or satisfaction of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Competition, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
