National Curriculum Assessment

The assessment of the National Curriculum has evolved from the first blueprint of the TGAT Report through a series of policy decisions and early experience of implementation. The pace of change, the complexity of the proposed assessment system and the political rhetoric associated with it have served to confuse and so obscure the trends in policy and practice. This book offers an account of that system and explains why it is now emerging in a substantially different form from that envisaged by its originators. Chapter 1 The Policy Context; Chapter 2 Designing and Planning the System; Chapter 3 From Standard Tasks to Written Tests; Chapter 4 Teacher Assessment and Moderation; Chapter 5 Record-Keeping, Reporting and Publishing Results; Chapter 6 Key Stage 4: National Assessment and the GCSE; Chapter 7 The System Reviewed; Chapter 8 Policies and Policy-Making; References; Index;