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Assessment

The issue of “high-stakes testing” linked to performance management of the education system has become prominent in educational policy development. In response to the growing interest in other approaches to assessment Nuffield has funded several studies on alternative systems, drawing on the experiences of other countries in the UK and beyond.

Nuffield’s most recent grant to the Assessment Reform Group is for a project to review examples of innovations in assessment and to analyse the principles underlying such work. A leaflet is available to download http: //www.aria.qub.ac.uk/ARIA%20Leaflet%2021-12-06.pdf. This follows on from their former project, Assessment Systems for the Future, which continues to disseminate and inform policy developments.

The Foundation also supports other, linked, projects in the area, continuing the tradition of a stream of support for work on assessment.

Professor John Gardner

Queen's University Belfast
Analysis and Review of Innovations in Assessment (ARIA)
£140,980
1 September 2006 - 28 February 2008
http: //www.aria.qub.ac.uk

Dr Kathryn Ecclestone

Oxford Brookes University
Improving formative assessment in post 14 and post-compulsory education
£100,004
1st January 2005 - 31 December 2007
http: //www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/staffinfo/eccleston-FAproject.html

Dr Christine Harrison, Professor Paul Black, Dr Jeremy Hodgen, Dr Bethan Marshall,

King's College London
Strengthening teachers' summative assessments
£108,117
1st January 2006 - 30 June 2007
http: //www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/research/groups/assess.html

Last Updated Thu, 6 March 2008