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O'Shea, Andrew; Lorenzi, Francesca – Ethics and Education, 2015
This paper develops a dialogue on value and measurement in education that began at a special symposium at ECER in September 2015. The paper seeks to continue the dialogue by commenting on the main respondent's contribution from Network 9. We hope to clarify how different sides of the assessment debate can be misunderstood by others. What emerges…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Ethics, International Assessment, Problem Solving
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Meyer, Heinz-Dieter – Comparative Education, 2017
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Problems, Accuracy, Scholarship
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Bakker, Steven – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2012
A particular trait of the educational system under socialist reign was accountability at the input side--appropriate facilities, centrally decided curriculum, approved text-books, and uniformly trained teachers--but no control on the output. It was simply assumed that it met the agreed standards, which was, in turn, proven by the statistics…
Descriptors: Accountability, Social Problems, Ethics, Foreign Students