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Research suggests that teachers need a great deal of professional support if they are to acquire and use new knowledge and skills, but within the area of formative assessment teachers have often been...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Recent research on school improvement indicates that schools can lift student achievement by using achievement information to work out how to modify their programmes. Robertson Rd School worked...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The significance of formative assessment strategies for student learning has been summed up by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam in their review of all research data from 1988 to 1998. Twenty English...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The implementation of best practice models for assessment begins with teachers who are working in their own classes to integrate strategies into their teaching context. The effect of best practice...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Assessment, much like learning, is interactive, social and contextual. New information and experience is understood and assimilated in relation to prior knowledge and experiences. While it is...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: AM2013_5_001.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Informal formative assessment practices, which occur as part of the dialogic interactions happening in the everyday classroom, are not well understood by many teachers. The successful implementation...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Feedback on students’ written assignments has been deemed critical for improvement. Although teachers’ and students’ views on feedback have been examined, school leaders’ perceptions of what...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
In Sweden, systematic reviews have prompted a strong government focus on implementing formative assessment in science and mathematics education. However, the intention behind this investment—to...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
Assessment practices in higher education focus on evaluating student learning. Institutions are now expected to provide improvement-oriented assessments that help students to improve their...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article