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| Titel: |
Measuring Science Standards in Scottish Schools: the assessment of achievement programme |
| Auteur: |
Stark, Rae |
| Verschenen in: |
Assessment in education |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 6 (1999) nr. 1 pagina's 27-41 |
| Jaar: |
1999-03-01 |
| Inhoud: |
In Scotland, the fourth national survey of pupil performance in science in 1996 was the first to attempt to measure attainment in schools against the national policy statements for science which were introduced in 1993 as part of the 5-14 Development Programme. The government-funded Assessment of Achievement Programme (AAP) has been monitoring performance since the 1980s, but the introduction of national guidelines with age-related expectations of performance and progress has raised the stakes for those involved in implementing the curriculum. In order that the findings and their implications for effective learning and teaching are reliable, valid and an accurate reflection of what is important in science education, it is essential that the methods employed to produce a picture of what pupils in Scottish schools know and can do are defensible, technically and educationally. This paper describes the approach adopted by the AAP science team in 1996 and highlights the difficulties of translating what is essentially a learning and teaching framework into a means by which we can determine whether pupils are meeting the expectations of the national guidelines. The political and financial context means that compromises are inevitable, but these should be educationally defensible and should not convey the impression that some aspects of the science curriculum are to be accorded greater status than others. National monitoring should be, as far as is possible, an accurate reflection of science within the national guidelines as well as of pupil performance. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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