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Overview
Monitoring the standards of school achievement is a topic which has been subject to increasing attention of late. This book aims to add clarity and fuel to this ongoing debate by answering such questions as: Why should standards of education be monitored? Which are the major steps to be undertaken in setting and monitoring cognitive and affective achievement standards? Which indicators can be used and, how should they be measured?Monitoring the standards of school achievement is a topic which has been subject to increasing attention of late. This book aims to add clarity and fuel to this ongoing debate by answering such questions as: Why should standards of education be monitored? Which are the major steps to be undertaken in setting and monitoring cognitive and affective achievement standards? Which indicators can be used and, how should they be measured?
Synopsis
Monitoring the standards of school achievement is a topic which has been subject to increasing attention of late. This book aims to add clarity and fuel to this ongoing debate by answering such questions as: Why should standards of education be monitored? Which are the major steps to be undertaken in setting and monitoring cognitive and affective achievement standards? Which indicators can be used and, how should they be measured?
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A festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of John P. Keeves, an Australian researcher whose work has primarily been concerned with the identification of factors that account for differences in achievement between students, between schools, and between the educational systems of different countries. The volume presents the state-of-the-art in the domain of monitoring standards, tested in both highly and less developed countries. Distributed by Elsevier Science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)