1st Edition

Baseline Assessment and Monitoring in Primary Schools

By Peter Tymms Copyright 1999
112 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

114 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

114 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

First Published in 1999. This book offers the reader a detailed picture of attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. Acknowledging the complexity of schools and schooling, Peter Tymms shows with many charts, diagrams and data displays how reliable measures can be used to track pupils' development. Systematic data collection and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Baseline and other assessments; Chapter 3 Achievements and the differences between pupils; Chapter 4 Value-added; Chapter 5 Attitudes; Chapter 6 How to live in a fog; Chapter 7 What we do and do not know and how we can find things out;

Biography

Peter Tymms, Reader in Education, School of Education, University of Durham and Director of the Performance Indicators in Primary Schools (PIPS) project.