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.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

Standards and quality in education

chapter 3|4 pages

The non-league table method

chapter 4|31 pages

Performance assessment in perspective

International trends and current English experience

chapter 9|5 pages

Learning as the social construction of meaning

Its implications for assessing and planning learning

chapter 10|13 pages

What school is really for

Revisiting values

chapter 11|9 pages

Observing children choosing

part |2 pages

Part III Policy development in assessing and planning learning

chapter 13|6 pages

Discussion points for primary schools

chapter 15|26 pages

Authentic testing in mathematics

chapter 16|8 pages

The challenge of the 1990s

chapter 17|26 pages

The third revolution?

chapter 4|9 pages

Four-year-olds in school

Cause for concern