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1. Changing Educational Contexts, Issues and Identities

   40 Years of Comparative Education

   Edited by Michael Crossley, Patricia Broadfoot, Michele Schweisfurth

   Series: Education Heritage

   Documenting major intellectual and paradigmatic changes in the field of comparative education in the light of the history and development of the journal Comparative Education, this book compiles a selection of articles from forty years of the journal’s distinguished history. It illustrates how...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
2. Assessment, Schools and Society

   By Patricia Broadfoot

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   The 1970s saw a growing worldwide pre-occupation with school assessment; Britain witnessed lengthy debate in response to the proposals for examination reform initiated by the Schools Council, and the setting up of an Assessment of Performance Unit to monitor standards of achievement. This book...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Changing Educational Assessment

   International Perspectives and Trends

   Edited by Patricia Broadfoot, Roger Murphy, Harry Torrance

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Assessment

   What's In It For Schools?

   By Patricia Broadfoot, Paul Weeden, Jan Winter

   Series: What's in it for schools?

   There has been much debate on the purposes and methods of assessment over the last couple of years. This book gathers together the latest thinking and looks at how assessment can be used to promote or inhibit learning. Unlike other books on the market, this one summarizes theory and shows how it...

   Published July 17th 2002 by Routledge