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If people approve of us, then we approve of ourselves – our self-esteem grows. From the British equivalent of set we reprint this research on the ability of young children to rank...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article We often 'cheat' by giving marks higher than the quality of the work requires. Our motives are good – often it is to avoid discouraging the 'trier'. But does it pay off?
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Marks interfere with each other – your brilliantly fair assessments may be 'put-crook' by other equally just marks. Technical, but as readable as Le Carré, and much more important.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Assessment in education serves several purposes. It can provide diagnoses of learning and teaching deficiencies. It can establish the level of achievement of a student or a group of students with...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Mid-year exams are looming, and Mr Davey has a paper to set for his senior maths class. Going to his classroom store cupboard he drags down a battered manilla folder labelled 'Exams', bulging with...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Finding out how much your pupils know - how many points they can recall, the number of words mis-spelled, the number of problems solved correctly - this is comparatively easy and there is an...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article One of the disturbing things about 'common sense' is that just about every situation has a bit of folklore to back it up. On the subject of internal assessment you can choose between 'learning from...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Essays written in a 'good hand' get better marks than those written in a 'poor' hand. That was discovered over 50 years ago. Perhaps the computer will eradicate the influence of handwriting on the...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A man once owned a dog which was inclined to jump over the back fence and enjoy the delights of the neighbourhood. Deciding that he needed a new fence around his yard, the man was confronted with the...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In this bulletin an attempt has been made to explain what is meant by the term intelligence, and to answer some of the queries concerning intelligence tests which teachers and principals often raise...
| Year published: 1976 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article