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Direct linkLichter, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Legislation leading to the mandating of accountability testing in schools was chronicled between the publication of "A Nation at Risk" (1983) to the conclusion of No Child Left Behind (2016). Involvement in education by the federal government increased throughout the educational legislation during this time period. The Omnibus Trade and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Educational History
Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
The TES investigates the power and influence of the examining boards, and looks at possible changes in the system. (Editor)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedPeterson, A. D. C. – International Review of Education, 1975
This paper critically reviews methods of pupil assessment at the beginning, during and at the end of the second cycle of secondary education. It notes a trend towards more global assessment based on a mixture of external and internal, periodic and terminal, subjective and objective tests. (Editor)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
Macintosh, H. G. – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1977
Suggests that GCE and CSE boards need to bury their differences if progress is to be made on the 16-plus proposals. (Editor)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Change
Download full textPearson, Richard; Manning, Winton H. – 1967
This paper concerns the projected changes suggested for testing in the future by the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB). A Commission on Tests is held desirable, the general purpose of which is to describe a comprehensive series of testing activities supporting the large-scale distribution of students among college level institutions in the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Educational Change, Educational Testing
Haertel, Edward H.; Herman, Joan L. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
In this article, the authors describe various rationales for accountability testing programs over the past century. This history forms the backdrop for current test-driven reforms, including Public Law 107-110, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which was signed into law in January 2002. The goals of the authors are first, to illustrate…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing Programs, Federal Legislation, Testing
