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Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 5  Number 3  November 1998

SPECIAL ISSUE: PORTFOLIOS AND RECORDS OF ACHIEVEMENT
EDITORS: DAN KORETZ, PATRICIA BROADFOOT & ALISON WOLF

Editorial 301

Large-scale Portfolio Assessments in the US: evidence pertaining to the
quality of measurement
DANIEL KORETZ 309

The Local Benefits and Burdens of Large-scale Portfolio Assessment
BRIAN STECHER 335

A Canadian Perspective on Portfolio Use in Student Assessment
JOHN O. ANDERSON & DAN G. BACHOR 353

Teacher Assessments and Literacy Profiles of Primary School Children
in South Africa
DAVID JOHNSON 381

Portfolio Assessment as National Policy: the National Council for
Vocational Qualifications and its quest for a pedagogical revolution
ALISON WOLF 413

Records of Achievement and The Learning Society: a tale of two discourses
PATRICIA BROADFOOT 447

Notes on Contributors 479

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 5 481


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 5  Number 2  July 1998

Editorial 149

National Self-determination and International Dependence: the organisation
and control of secondary school examinations in the small states of the Commonwealth
MARK BRAY 151

A Tale of Two Tests: tensions in assessment policy
WILLIAM A. FIRESTONE 175

National Curriculum Tests for Mathematics in English and Welsh: creating
matched assessments
DYLAN V. JONES 193

Comparing Teacher Assessment and Standard Task Results in England:
the relationship between pupil characteristics and attainment
SALLY THOMAS, GEORGE F. MADAUS, ANASTASIA E. RACZEK &
REBECCA SMEES 213

The Relationship between Different Criteria for Admission to Medical
School and Student Success
GÜNTER TROST, ECKHARD KLIEME &HEINZ-ULRICH NAUELS 247

PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS WORLD-WIDE
Educational Assessment in Lesotho
E. MOLAPI SEBATANE 255

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Assessment: problems, developments and statistical issues (edited by Harvey
Goldstein & Toby Lewis) reviewed by Hans Wagemaker & Tjeerd Plomp and
Chris Whetton
271

REVIEW ESSAYS
Assessment and Control at Parkview School: a qualitative case study of
implementing assessment change in a secondary school (Hilary A. Radnor) reviewed by Harry Torrance
277

Reforming Mathematics Education and Assessment 281
Examining the Examinations: an international comparison of science and
mathematics examinations for college bound students (edited by E. D. Britton &
S. A. Raizen), Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (edited by
T. A. Romburg) and Assessment and Realistic Mathematics Education (edited by
M. van den Heuvel-Panhuizen) reviewed by Candia Morgan

Notes on Contributors 289


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 5  Number 1  March 1998

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ASSESSMENT AND CLASSROOM LEARNING

Editorial 5

Assessment and Classroom Learning
PAUL BLACK & DYLAN WILIAM 7

Self-assessment
SIBANI RAYCHAUDHURI 75

Formative Assessment: revisiting the territory
D. ROYCE SADLER 77

From Formative Evaluation to a Controlled Regulation of Learning Processes.
Towards a wider conceptual field
PHILIPPE PERRENOUD 85

Assessment and Classroom Learning: a role for summative assessment?
JOHN BIGGS 103

Assessment and Classroom Learning: a deductive approach
JOHN HATTIE & RICHARD JAEGER 111

Assessment and Classroom Learning: a response to Black & Wiliam
E. M. SEBATANE 123

Assessment and Classroom Learning: theory and practice
CAROL ANNE DWYER 131

Notes on Contributors 139


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 4  Number 3  November 1997

Editorial 333

American Students’ Perspectives on Alternative Assessment: do they
know it’s different?
JOAN L. HERMAN, DAVINA C. D. KLEIN & SARA T. WAKAI 339

The Construction and Evaluation of Simulations to Assess Professional
Interviewing Skills
GERTRUDE N. SMIT & HENK T. VAN DER MOLEN 353

Assessment and Learning: differences and relationships between
formative and summative assessment
WYNNE HARLEN & MARY JAMES 365

Understanding Assessment in the Classroom: phases of the assessment
process—the assessment episode
YIANNIS MAVROMMATIS 381

Mathematics Assessment for Children with English as an Additional
Language
ELEANORE HARGREAVES 401

PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS WORLD-WIDE
Assessment in the Spanish Educational System
FERNANDO MARHUENDA 413

REVIEW ESSAY
The Kaleidoscope of Assessment: disciplinary angles
Education, Assessment and Society (Patricia M. Broadfoot) reviewed by GEORGE F. MADAUS, MARGUERITE CLARKE & MICHAEL O’LEARY 431

Notes on Contributors 439

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 4 443


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 4 Number 2 July 1997

Editorial 221

When Classrooms Matter: implications of between-classroom variability for educational policy in Israel
GAD YAIR 225

Comparing Examination Standards: is a purely statistical approach adequate?
BEN E. JONES 249

Reliability of Essay-type Questions-effect of structuring
MANORAMA VERMA, JUGESH CHHATWAL & TEJINDER SINGH 265

The Validity of National Testing at Age 11: the teacher's view
MARGARET BROWN, BET McCALLUM, BRENDA TAGGART & CAROLINE GIPPS 271

PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS WORLD-WIDE
Country Profile from France
GÉRARD BONNET 295

REVIEW ESSAYS
The Education Reform Act of 1988
Changing English Primary Schools? The impact of the Education Reform Act at
Key Stage One (A. Pollard et al.), Intuition or Evidence? Teachers and national assessment of seven-year-olds (C. Gipps et al.) and Educational Objectives and National Assessment (S. Butterfield) reviewed by PETER W. AIRASIAN &
KELVIN D. GREGORY 307

Lessons from Praxis
Evaluating Authentic Assessment: problems and possibilities in new approaches to assessment (edited by Harry Torrance) reviewed by ROBERT L. LINN 315

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Enhancing Learning through Self-assessment (D. Boud) reviewed by GUY CLAXTON & KAREN HINETT 319

Notes on Contributors 325


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 4 Number 1 January 1997

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE DIPLOMA DISEASE TWENTY YEARS ON

The Diploma Disease twenty years on: an introduction
ANGELA W. LITTLE 5

The Argument of the Diploma Disease: a summary
RONALD DORE 23

THE LATE DEVELOPMENT THESIS: COUNTRY CASES

Growth Stocks and Lemons: diplomas in the English market-place 1976-1996
ALISON WOLF 33

Education in a More Affluent Japan
IKUO AMANO 51

The Value of Examination Success in Sri Lanka 1971-1996: the effects of
ethnicity, political patronage and youth insurgency
ANGELA W. LITTLE 67

Kenya 1975-1995: an introductory note on educational expansion
TOSHIO TOYODA 87

Treating the Diploma Disease in Kenya: a modest counter-proposal
ANTHONY SOMERSET 91

THE EXPERIENCE OF REFORM

The Coming Crisis in Cuban Education
SUSAN ECKSTEIN 107

Tanzanian Education in the Nineties: beyond the diploma disease
BRIAN COOKSEY & SIBYLLE RIEDMILLER 121

The Sea of Items Returns to China: backwash, selection and the diploma
disease revisited
KEITH LEWIN 137

EXTENSIONS OF THE THESIS

The Diploma Disease in Egypt: learning, teaching and the monster of the
secondary leaving certificate
ELEANORE HARGREAVES 161

The Desire for Academic Qualifications among Migrant Minorities:
a multi-level analysis
PETER NINNES 177

REFLECTIONS

Reflections on the Diploma Disease Twenty Years Later
RONALD DORE 189

Notes on Contributors 207


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 3 Number 3 November 1996

Editorial 261

Threats to the Valid Use of Assessments
TERRY J. CROOKS, MICHAEL T. KANE & ALLAN S. COHEN 2 65

Meanings and Consequences in Standard Setting
DYLAN WILIAM 287

Assessing, Recording and Reporting Students' Educational Progress: the
case for 'subject profiles'
KENNETH J. ROWE & PETER W. HILL 309

The Teacher as Examiner: the case of mathematics coursework
CANDIA MORGAN 353

The Construct Validity and Context Dependency of Teacher Assessment
of Practical Skills in Some Pre-university Level Science Examinations
C. R. BROWN, J. L. MOORE, B. E. SILKSTONE & C. BOTTON 377

COMMENTARIES
Codes of Ethics on Assessment Practice: confronting a quandary or
inculcating ethical character?-overview of two sample documents
NEIL BAUMGART 393

Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada
W. TODD ROGERS 397

Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement 401

Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada 413

REVIEW ESSAY
Assessing in Higher Education
Degrees of Difference. Higher education in the 1990s (Patrick Ainley), Are Professors Professional? The organisation of university examinations (David Warren Piper) and Assessment Issues in Higher Education (M. J. Atkins, J. Beattie & W. B. Dockrell) reviewed by JOHN HEYWOOD 433

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Enhancing Quality in Assessment (edited by Wynne Harlen) reviewed by
CLIVE J. TALBOT & ROGER MURPHY 441

REVIEW ESSAY
Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment (Michael T. Nettles &
Arie L. Nettles) reviewed by HILARY A. RADNOR 451

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Effective Assessment and the Improvement of Education: a tribute to Desmond Nuttall (edited by Roger Murphy & Patricia Broadfoot) reviewed by SALLY BROWN, PETER W. HILL & HARVEY GOLDSTEIN 457

Notes on Contributors 469

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 3 473


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 3 Number 2 July 1996

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE IEA STUDIES

Introduction
HARVEY GOLDSTEIN 125

A Brief History of the International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA)
TORSTEN HUSÉN & T. NEVILLE POSTLETHWAITE 129

IEA Studies and Educational Policy
THOMAS KELLAGHAN 143

The IEA Studies of Reading and Writing Literacy: a 1996 perspective
J. JOY CUMMING 161

IEA's Studies of Language Education: their scope and contributions
ALISTER CUMMING 179

FIMS and SIMS: the first two IEA International Mathematics Surveys
MARGARET BROWN 193

The IEA Assessment of Science Achievement
PATRICIA MURPHY 213

REVIEW ESSAY
A Comparative Assessment of Assessment
MAX A. ECKSTEIN reviews The Impact of Examination Systems on Curriculum
Development: an international study (Christine De Luca), National Examinations:
design, procedures and reporting (John P. Keeves) and A Comparative Study of
Current Theories and Practices in Assessing Student's Achievements at Primary and
Secondary Level (Henry G. Macintosh) 233

REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Competence-based Assessment (Alison Wolf) reviewed by ANDREW GONCZI & GORDON STOBART 241

Notes on Contributors 253


Assessment in Education:
principles, policy & practice

VOLUME 3 Number 1 March 1996

Editorial 5

Interview and Concours: teacher appointment procedures in England and
Wales and France and what they mean
NICHOLAS BEATTIE 9

Issues in Selection for Vocational Education: some lessons from the
Queensland experience
GRAHAM S. MAXWELL 29

Developing an Assessment Stance in Primary Art Education in England
JEAN GILBERT 55

PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS WORLD-WIDE
Educational Assessment in China
WANG GANG 75

Review Essays
Revolutionary Tales - from the frontiers of assessment
PAUL BLACK reviews High Stakes Performance Assessment: perspectives on
Kentucky's educational reform (Thomas R. Guskey (Ed.)) and National
Curriculum Assessment: a review of policy 1987-1994 (Richard Daugherty) 89

Carts, Horses, and Roller-coasters
ROBERT CALFEE reviews Beyond Testing: towards a theory of educational
assessment (C. V. Gipps) 99

JAN WINTER reviews Who Counts? Assessing mathematics in Europe
(Leone Burton (Ed.)) 105

Notes on Contributors 111

Erratum 113

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