Focussing the Teacher's Gaze: Primary teachers reconstructing assessment in self managing schools

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 113-125 - 2002
Mary Hill1
1School of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Tóm tắt

As a result of the changes to school administration and curriculum in New Zealand over the last ten years, primary teachers have had to make significant changes to their assessment practices. This paper briefly reviews literature relating to the competing discourses of assessment that underpin teachers' practices and describes how the changes to New Zealand education have provoked a reconsideration of the balance between formative and summative assessment. It then reports findings from a qualitative investigation into how some primary teachers have attempted to accommodate these competing discourses and the effects these have had on their teaching practice. These results are discussed in light of the research literature and suggestions for changing national and school policies and practices to prioritise assessment for better learning over accountability conclude the paper.

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