Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout schooling and looks critically at a range of interventions in difference contexts and countries, all aimed at enhancing equity in schools and higher education institutions.

Provides an account of the range of teaching, assessing and feedback strategies used by individual expert teachers. The book describes: the most common lesson patterns, why and when they are used; how teaching strategies are varied according to subjects; how assessment and feedback information can encourage pupils to learn; and the differences in teaching seven year olds and eleven year olds. This accessible and concise book illustrates good teaching practice.

'It is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of assessment, and I am (along with anyone else who broods about education) much in your debt.' Jerome Bruner, personal communication with the author

When this award-winning book was originally published in 1994, a review in the TES said: 'Beyond Testing is a refreshingly honest look at the dilemmas facing those who are trying to make educational assessment more supportive of high-quality learning for all pupils and students ... It contains powerful and practical messages for assessment developers,...