Table of Contents
Part One: Perspectives. 1. School Examinations - Some Sociological Issues, Eggleston. 2. Psychologists and Intelligence Testing in English Education, 1900 – 1940, Sharp. 3. Linking People and Jobs: The Indeterminate Place of Educational Credentials, Dale, Pires. 4. Assessment in the Comprehensive School: What Criteria Count? Turner. 5. Teachers’ Attitudes to Examining: A Case Study, Scarth. 6. Headteachers’ Judgements of Teacher Competence: Principles and Procedures in Ten Inner-city Schools, Grace. 7. Educational versus Managerial Evaluation in Schools, Bates. 8. Children with Learning Difficulties and Assessment in the Junior Classroom, Croll, Moses, Wright. Part Two: Contemporary Policy Issues. 9. Doomsday or a New Dawn? The Prospects for a Common System of Examining at 16+, Nuttall. 10. Teachers, Boards and Standards: The Attack on School-Based Assessment in English Public Examinations at 16+, Bowe, Whitty. 11. From Public Examinations to Profile Assessment: The French Experience, Broadfoot. 12. Towards a Tertiary Tripartism: New Codes of Social Control and the 17+, Ranson. 13. Rendering Accounts: A Critical Analysis of the APU, Hextall.