Level Descriptions in the National Curriculum: What Kind of Criterion Referencing is This?.

Sainsbury, Marian; Sizmur, Steve

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Publication Date: 1998

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Level Descriptions in the National Curriculum: What Kind of Criterion Referencing is This?

Sainsbury, Marian; Sizmur, Steve

Oxford Review of Education, v24 n2 p181-93 Jun 1998

Explains the criterion-referenced assessments in an educational context that aim to give information about valued educational outcomes. Traces the ways criterion referencing has been applied in the course of its 30 year history. Discusses a framework for the analysis of criterion-referenced approaches and applies the framework to the National Curriculum for England and Wales. (CMK)

Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Student Evaluation, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales)

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