Implementing National Curriculum Assessment in the Primary School Book

This study is an evaluation of National Curriculum assessment in theory and practice. It focuses on the contentious issues which proved, and continue to prove, problematic at Key Stage 1 (age 7), and which have clear implications also for the first Key Stage 2 (age 11) assessments in 1994. Features of the book include: an informed and balanced insight to the reality of National Curriculum assessment in English, maths and science throughout the primary school; a critical evaluation of assessment experience against a context of good practice in teaching and learning; separate chapters on special educational needs, and assessing bilingual children; and the book opens up issues which the SEAC sought to suppress via very low-profile "publication" of the formal evaluation report - particularly relevant to Key Stage 2 teachers looking nervously at the current furore re Key Stage 3 testing.Read More