Baseline Assessment And Monitoring In Primary Schools: Achievements, Attitudes And Value-Added Indicators; Author: Tymms, Peter; Paperback

Author: Tymms, Peter
Paperback; Illustrations, Charts, Diagrams
112 pages
Published: August 1999
David Fulton Publishers
ISBN: 1853465917

This book offers the reader a detailed picture of the attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. Acknowledging the complexity of schools and schooling, the author demonstrates with charts, diagrams and data displays how reliable measures can be used to track pupils' development, and demonstrates systematic data collectionand interpretation based on the well established Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project. He addresses important policy and practical questions and reaches some surprising conclusionsand identifies gaps in knowledge and outlines ways to fill them.This text offers the reader a detailed picture of the attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. It includes demonstrations with charts, diagrams and data to show how reliable measures can be used to track pupils' development.