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Primary Education
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ABSTRACT
This wide ranging sourcebook draws together a range of recent and specially commissioned pieces which examine how policy development and research findings have influenced planning and assessing learning for young children. Topics covered include standards, quality control, league tables, teacher and performance assessment. It also looks at the enabling of learning, focusing on authentic activity and learning, implicit values, the role of learner choice and classroom management.
The book also raises which will effect assessing and planning learning into the next century, and sets an agenda for reform and development including teacher training, funding of primary education, early years education and entitlement in primary school.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|31 pages
Performance assessment in perspective
chapter 5|8 pages
Spanish policy and practice—assessing learning the constructivist way
chapter 6|29 pages
Teachers’ own assessments
chapter 7|10 pages
Authentic activity and learning
chapter 9|5 pages
Learning as the social construction of meaning
chapter 12|14 pages
Classroom practice in England and France
part |2 pages
Part III Policy development in assessing and planning learning