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National Testing at Seven: What Can It Tell Us?

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Gipps, Caroline – 1992

The use of performance based evaluation on a national scale with 7-year-olds in the United Kingdom is described, and the impact of national assessment on teaching practice and implications of this type of assessment are considered. The national assessment program in the United Kingdom started in earnest in 1991 when all 7-year-olds were assessed…

Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Attainment, Elementary School Students