Using Examinations to Improve Education: A Study in Fourteen African Countries (World Bank Technical Paper)

Kellaghan, Thomas

Greaney, Vincent

World Bank

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Monitoring the Learning Outcomes of Education Systems (Directions in Development)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

As knowledge increasingly replaces raw materials and labor as a key resource in economic development, the availability of human knowledge and skills is critical in determining a country's rate of economic development and its competitiveness in international markets. The growing use of national assessment capacity has enabled ministries of education across the world to describe national levels of learning achievement in key subject areas; compare achievement levels of key subgroups, such as boys and girls, ethnic groups, urban and rural students, and public and private school students; and provide evidence to support claims about standards of student achievement.Despite growth in assessment activity, the potential value of the data that assessments can provide remains underappreciated. The requisite skills to conduct assessments require development, and even countries that carry out national assessments or participate in international ones may not yet be able to fully exploit the information yielded. 'Assessing National Achievement Levels in Education' describes the purposes and features of national assessments, as well as issues in designing, implementing, analyzing, and reporting. It also describes major international, regional, and national assessments in a range of countries.This book will be of interest to national, regional, and state governments; research institutions; and universities.

Assessing National Achievement Levels in Education (1) (National Assessments of Educational Achievement)

World Bank Publications

Children: Needs and Rights

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Irvington Pub.

Évaluations nationales des acquis scolaires, Volume 5: Communiquer et utiliser les résultats d'une évaluation nationale des acquis scolaires (National Assessments of Educational Achievement)

Murray, T. Scott

¿Qué están aprendiendo los estudiantes? En todo el mundo, los gobiernos que se esfuerzan por mejorar la calidad de la educación están recurriendo a las evaluaciones nacionales como fuente de esta información que tan necesaria es en las áreas curriculares clave. La capacidad de llevar a cabo evaluaciones nacionales ha crecido notablemente en los últimos años, pero no se ha reflejado en un uso generalizado de sus resultados. Este libro pretende potenciar la apreciación del valor de tales datos y ayudar a los países a explotar el conocimiento que ofrecen las evaluaciones nacionales. Utilización de los resultados de una evaluación nacional del rendimiento académico expone los principales factores que afectan a la utilización de los resultados de una evaluación nacional, a saber: el contexto político en que se lleva a cabo la evaluación, la naturaleza de la evaluación (censal o basada en una muestra), la asignación de responsabilidades frente a los resultados y la calidad de los instrumentos de evaluación. El libro describe el tipo de información que debería contener el informe principal de una evaluación nacional, así como otros medios de comunicar los resultados a públicos técnicos y no técnicos. Expone consideraciones genéricas sobre cómo traducir los resultados de las evaluaciones nacionales en políticas e intervenciones, y examina procedimientos específicos para utilizar los datos en la formulación de políticas, la gestión educativa, la enseñanza y la sensibilización pública. Los temas tratados en este volumen resultarán de interés para los responsables políticos, los educadores, los investigadores y los profesionales del desarrollo.

Evaluaciones nacionales del rendimiento académico Volumen 5: Utilización de los resultados de una evaluación nacional del rendimiento académico (5) (National Assessments of Educational Achievement)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

High-stakes public examinations exert a dominant influence in most education systems. They affect both teacher and student behavior, especially at the middle and upper levels of secondary education. The content of past examinations tends to dictate what is taught and how it is taught and, more important, what is learned and how it is learned. By changing aspects of these examinations, especially their content and format, education systems can have a strong positive impact on teacher behavior and student learning, help raise student achievement levels, and better prepare students for tertiary-level education and for employment. Examination agencies, many of which have followed the same procedures over decades, can learn from the successes and failures of other systems. This book addresses current issues related to the development, administration, scoring, and usage of these high-stakes public examinations, identifying key issues and problems related to examinations in many emerging market economies as well as in advanced economies. The book s primary audience consists of public examination officials on national, regional, and state examination boards, but the book should also be of interest to senior education policy makers concerned with certification and learning achievement standards, to academics and researchers interested in educational assessment, to governmental and education agencies responsible for student selection, and to professionals at development organizations.

Public Examinations Examined

The number of countries which have undertaken national and international assessments to evaluate the achievements of a whole education system, or a clearly defined part of it, has increased dramatically during the 1990s. This study considers the nature, models and purposes of national assessments, and discusses how information derived from them has been used in countries across the world. It also looks at international assessments which share many procedural features with national assessments, but are designed to allow comparisons across countries.

Using Assessment to Improve the Quality of Education (Fundamentals of Educational Planning, 71)

UNESCO

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