This book explores global and cross-national influences on assessment systems and their likely development. It combines comparative and general analyses with in-depth accounts of a wide range of countries, including those in political and economic transition. Explicit connections are made between general issues and specific cases.
Assessment in Transition: Learning, Monitoring and Selection in International Perspective
- explores the factors determining the nature of assessment systems and reform, and the increasing prominence and importance of educational assessment
- provides accounts of the roles of assessment in a range of national contexts
- examines the tensions between the roles of assessment, and how far these are or could be resolved.
It is unique in its sustained analysis of emerging international trends, its treatment of national systems and the effects of international agencies' activities, and in applying theories drawn from economics, politics, sociology, statistics and psychology to the subject.
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This book explores global and cross-national influences on assessment systems and their likely development. It combines comparative and general analyses with in-depth accounts of a wide range of countries, including those in political and economic transition. Explicit connections are made between general issues and specific cases.
Assessment in Transition: Learning, Monitoring and Selection in International Perspective
- explores the factors determining the nature of assessment systems and reform, and the increasing prominence and importance of educational assessment
- provides accounts of the roles of assessment in a range of national contexts
- examines the tensions between the roles of assessment, and how far these are or could be resolved.
It is unique in its sustained analysis of emerging international trends, its treatment of national systems and the effects of international agencies' activities, and in applying theories drawn from economics, politics, sociology, statistics and psychology to the subject.
Imprint | Pergamon Press |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | November 1996 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1996 |
Editors | Angela Little, Alison Wolf |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 340 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-08-042767-6 |
Barcode | 9780080427676 |
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LSN | 0-08-042767-7 |