1st Edition

Baseline Assessment Practice, Problems and Possibilities

By Geoff Lindsay, Martin Desforges Copyright 1998
164 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

164 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

164 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

First Published in 1998. Baseline assessment will be compulsory from September 1998. Enshrined in the Education Act 1997, and subject to cross party support, baseline assessment has high popularity - at least in principle. This book reviews these different elements and purposes, and their implications for practice. The authors review the educational, psychological and psychometric factors which... Read more
Chapter 1 Baseline assessment: political background to educational change; Chapter 2 Child development; Chapter 3 Screening for children with special educational needs; Chapter 4 Value-added; Chapter 5 Technical quality of baseline assessment; Chapter 6 Development of the Infant Index and Baseline-plus; Chapter 7 Early identification and the Code of Practice; Chapter 8 Interventions; Chapter 9 Looking to the future;

Biography

Geoff Lindsay, Martin Desforges