This book addresses current issues related to the development, administration, scoring and usage of public examinations. High-stakes public examinations exert a dominant influence on education systems...
Most developing countries following independence opted for strong central control and direction of the education system, partly because of limited resources and the need to plan carefully and partly because...
This paper reviews what has happened in the field of assessment since then. It deals with public examinations, but differs from the 1992 report in that, other than in regard to a few minor details, no...
This book provides introductory information to assessing the learning outcomes of education systems. It considers the role of indicators in this process, in particular, their nature, choice, and use. A...
This report outlines the findings, issues and recommended improvements from fourteen individual studies undertaken on primary and secondary school examinations. Considerable reliance has been placed on...