A Brief History of a Testing Time: National Curriculum Assessment in England 1989-2008

Autor/in	Whetton, Chris
Titel	A Brief History of a Testing Time: National Curriculum Assessment in England 1989-2008
Quelle	In: Educational Research, 51 (2009) 2, S.137-159 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1881
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; Biographies; Foreign Countries; Accountability; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; International Education; Educational Change; Educational Assessment; Evaluation Methods; Educational History; Educational Environment; Politics of Education; Educational Testing; High Stakes Tests; Student Evaluation; Test Construction; Teacher Role; Program Effectiveness; Criticism; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Ausland; Verantwortung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Internationale Erziehung; Bildungsreform; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational policy; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Testaufbau; Lehrerrolle; Kritik; Großbritannien
Abstract	Background: National curriculum assessment (NCA) in England has been in place for nearly 20 years. It has its origins in a political desire to regulate education, holding schools accountable. However, its form and nature also reflect educational and curriculum concerns and technical assessment issues. Purpose: The aim of the article is to provide a narrative account of the development and changes in NCA in England from its initiation to 2008 and to explain the reasons for these. Sources of evidence: The sources quoted are in the public domain, but in addition to academic articles, include political biographies and published official papers. Main argument and conclusions: NCA in England has evolved over 20 years, from an attempt at a criterion-referenced system based on tasks marked by the children's own teachers through to an externally marked examination system. This change reflects the political purposes of the system for accountability, and the pressure associated with this has led to growing criticism of the effects on children and their education. Nonetheless, the results provided are widely used by the public and government, and the reasons for the survival of the system lie in both its utility and the difficulty of identifying a new system which is necessarily an improvement for all the stakeholders involved. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10