Assessment in Action in the Primary School

Informationen zum Autor Colin Conner is a lecturer in primary education at the University of Cambridge School of Education. Klappentext Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education over the past 10 years. This edited volume of essays brings together perspectives from all the 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. It will be of interest to school assessment co-ordinators, deputies and heads following NPQH courses, and lecturers on IE courses. Zusammenfassung Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education during the 1990s. These essays bring together perspectives from significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1 Assessment in the Primary School: A Review of Current Issues Chapter 2 Baseline Assessment: A Case for Civil Disobedience? Chapter 3 Out of the Mire: Taming the Beast that Had Become Assessment Chapter 4 The Role of Target Setting in School Improvement: An Illustration in the Context of the Leys Primary School Chapter 5 The Role of the LEA in Supporting Assessment in the Primary School Chapter 6 Baseline Assessment: Policy into Practice Chapter 7 Using Data to Drive Up Standards: Statistics or Psychology? Chapter 8 Do Pupil Perception Surveys Work with Young Children? Chapter 9 Value-added Assessment

Product details

• Authors: Colin Conner, Colin (University of Cambridge Conner, Conner Colin
• Assisted by: Colin Conner (Editor), Conner Colin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1998
• EAN: 9780750709538
• ISBN: 978-0-7507-0953-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Primary Directions Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary