A practical handbook which senior staff in primary schools can use to support their activities in evidence-based management. With the increase in emphasis on teachers monitoring the quality of teaching and learning, the Teacher Training Agency's direction is towards teaching as a research-based profession, and there is greater need to assess learning gains and evaluate year-on-year progress in schools. For headteachers, deputy heads, managers, Key Stage coordinators, this work should provide the guidance they need to conduct and act upon quality reviews and evidence-based analyses of pupils'...

Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education during the 1990s. This edited volume of essays brings together perspectives from significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school: teachers, headteachers, LEA advisors, inspectors, pupils, academics and researchers. The contributions illustrate effective assessment, and examine how it is, and can be, achieved. This book should be of interest to school assessment coordinators, deputies and heads following NPQH courses, and lecturers on IE courses.

Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education during the 1990s. This edited volume of essays brings together perspectives from significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school: teachers, headteachers, LEA advisors, inspectors, pupils, academics and researchers. The contributions illustrate effective assessment, and examine how it is, and can be, achieved. This book should be of interest to school assessment coordinators, deputies and heads following NPQH courses, and lecturers on IE courses.