Education for All, supported by the international community, emphasizes the importance of learning quality. This book focuses on the use of assessment to monitor and evaluate learning in Sub-Saharan African countries. It deals with four major aspects of educational assessment: public (external) examinations, national assessments of educational achievement levels, international assessments, and classroom assessment practices. Coverage of public examinations includes a review of their quality, their potential for leveraging reform, and their positive and negative impacts on the nature of...

Thomas Kellaghan Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland Daniel L. Stufflebeam The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Ml, USA Lori A. Wingate The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University, Ml, USA Educational evaluation encompasses a wide array of activities, including student assessment, measurement, testing, program evaluation, school personnel evalua tion, school accreditation, and curriculum evaluation. It occurs at all levels of education systems, from the individual student evaluations carried out by class room teachers, to evaluations of...

Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement, the fifth and final volume of the National Assessments of Educational Achievement series, draws on the experiences of over forty countries that have implemented a national assessment. It considers the role of contextual factors which impinge on the use of assessment findings. The attachment of sanctions to performance on a national assessment and use of assessment results for accountability are discussed. Key components of a national assessment report are specified . Other instruments to communicate findings are described....

Implementing a National Assessment of Educational Achievement, the third volume in the five-part National Assessments of Educational Achievement series, focuses on practical issues in the implementation of a national assessment. These include the representation of key educational stakeholders, required personnel and facilities, and the sequence of administrative activities in implementing an assessment. Particular attention is focused on sampling, such as defining the population to be assessed, elements of sampling theory, and the selection of schools and students to take part in an...

L'evaluation efficace de la performance des systemes educatifs est un element essentiel de la mise au point de politiques visant a optimiser le developpement du capital humain dans le monde. Les cinq manuels de la collection Evaluations nationales des acquis scolaires introduisent les concepts cles des evaluations nationales du niveau de performances des eleves, dont les questions politiques a traiter dans la conception et la mise en 'uvre des evaluations ou le developpement d'un test, la conception d'un questionnaire, l'echantillonnage, l'organisation et la mise en 'uvre de la collecte de...

La mise en oeuvre reussie d'une evaluation nationale des acquis scolaires est une tache complexe requerant des connaissances, des competences, et des ressources considerables. Les retombees des evaluations nationales correctement realisees peuvent etre substantielles en termes de qualite de l'information fournie sur les niveaux de performance des eleves ainsi que sur les facteurs, scolaires ou non, susceptibles de contribuer a les ameliorer. Inversement, le - cout - d'une evaluation nationale mal realisee peut etre une information inexacte sur les niveaux de performance des eleves et les...

La connaissance remplacant progressivement les matieres premieres et la main-d'oeuvre en tant que ressource cle du developpement economique, la disponibilite de savoirs et savoir-faire humains est cruciale pour determiner le taux de developpement economique d'un pays et sa competitivite sur le marche international. L'utilisation croissante de la capacite nationale d'evaluation a permis aux ministeres de l'Education de decrire les niveaux nationaux des acquis des eleves dans les principales disciplines et de comparer ceux des principaux sous-groupes (tels que les garcons et les filles, les...

La evaluacion efectiva del desempeno de los sistemas educativos es un componente clave en la formulacion de politicas para optimizar el desarrollo del capital humano en todo el mundo. Los cinco libros de la serie Evaluaciones nacionales del rendimiento academico presentan conceptos clave de las evaluaciones nacionales de los niveles de rendimiento estudiantil, desde las cuestiones normativas que deben abordarse cuando se disena y se lleva a cabo las evaluaciones, hasta el desarrollo de las pruebas, el muestreo, la depuracion de datos, las estadisticas, la redaccion de informes y el uso de los...

Focuses on the practical tasks involved in running a large-scale national assessment programme. Part I gives an overview, Part II a methodology to select a representative student sample, Part III how to clean and manage data, and Part IV useful pre-analysis steps such estimates, survey weights, and similar.

Que estan aprendiendo los estudiantes? En todo el mundo, los gobiernos que se esfuerzan por mejorar la calidad de la educacion estan recurriendo a las evaluaciones nacionales como fuente de esta informacion que tan necesaria es en las areas curriculares clave. La capacidad de llevar a cabo evaluaciones nacionales ha crecido notablemente en los ultimos anos, pero no se ha reflejado en un uso generalizado de sus resultados. Este libro pretende potenciar la apreciacion del valor de tales datos y ayudar a los paises a explotar el conocimiento que ofrecen las evaluaciones nacionales. Utilizacion...