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At a typical secondary school the researchers discovered how successful the presentation of the science curriculum in discrete separately assessed units of work is. And discovered the (unhappy)...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A famous discussion of the issues raised when a student at Harvard received an A for an examination he did, for fun, in a subject he had never studied.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Methods of assessment are themselves assessed: norm based, mastery based and interview techniques have been researched. Problems with each are faced and alternatives discussed.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article 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