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A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How do students understand concepts in school history curriculum and assessment documentation?
"Switched-on" history teachers tap into students' conceptual understandings, promote conversations...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explains how to use percentiles in interpreting test results, and decision making about teaching and learning.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Assessment and tracking progress in technology education can be a challenge in intermediate schools. The authors show how a rubric may be a possible solution.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Using assessment information formatively to contribute to teaching skills and knowledge that underpin the key competencies. The example used is from a study of 600 student...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A new series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from an aspect of their work over the years.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
If one were to name one year as the year that assessment was invented, that year would be 1980. This proposition is not fully proven here, but a plausible argument is presented in its defence.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Measuring the main trends of an individual's progress is always difficult. However, the presence of measurement error makes it harder. Good tests indicate the measurement error associated with...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on the analysis of a videotape of four children participating in a group mathematical task. The authors discuss the ways that the context, social organisation, and resources of...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Charles answers the following questions:
If we pre- and post-test every unit, are we overtesting?
How can we determine whether our students have progressed if we do not test every unit?
Is...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article