Assessment Policy Reform

ISBN-13: 9780367345228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 130 str.

Tina Isaacs; Iasonas Lamprianou

Opis

This book highlights the impact of policy and politics on assessment across the globe. It explores state-led assessment policies and practices that have been the subject of much debate. It was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice.

Spis treści

Introduction – International assessment policy reform: nothing new under the sun Tina Isaacs and Iasonas Lamprianou 1. Is the English Baccalaureate a passport to future success? Emma Armitage and Caroline Lau 2. National assessment policy reform 14–16 and its consequences for young people: student views and experiences of GCSE reform in Northern Ireland and Wales Rhian Barrance and Jannette Elwood 3. Towards a national assessment policy in Switzerland: Areas of conflict in the use of assessment instruments Flavian Imlig and Susanne Ender 4. Teacher Evaluation as a Wicked Policy Problem Sølvi Lillejord, Eyvind Elstad and Håkon Kavli 5. The development of assessment policy in Ireland: a story of junior cycle reform Ann MacPhail, John Halbert and Hal O’Neill 6. Ambitious and Ambiguous: Shifting Purposes of National Testing in the Legitimation of Assessment Policies in Norway and Sweden (2000–2017) Sverre Tveit