This book addresses current issues related to the development, administration, scoring and usage of public examinations. High-stakes public examinations exert a dominant influence on education systems in Asia, Africa, Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. They tend to have a...

La implementacion exitosa de una evaluacion nacional del rendimiento academico es una tarea compleja que requiere conocimientos, habilidades y recursos considerables. El beneficio de contar con evaluaciones nacionales puede ser sustancial en cuanto a la calidad de la informacion provista sobre...

La evaluacion efectiva del desempeno de los sistemas educativos es un componente clave en la formulacion de politicas para optimizar el desarrollo del capital humano en todo el mundo. Los cinco libros de la serie Evaluaciones nacionales del rendimiento academico presentan conceptos clave de las...

"High-stakes public examinations exert a dominant influence in most education systems. They affect both teacher and student behavior, especially at the middle and upper levels of secondary education. The content of past examinations tends to dictate what is taught and how it is taught and, more...

La connaissance remplacant progressivement les matieres premieres et la main-d'oeuvre en tant que ressource cle du developpement economique, la disponibilite de savoirs et savoir-faire humains est cruciale pour determiner le taux de developpement economique d'un pays et sa competitivite sur le...

La mise en oeuvre reussie d'une evaluation nationale des acquis scolaires est une tache complexe requerant des connaissances, des competences, et des ressources considerables. Les retombees des evaluations nationales correctement realisees peuvent etre substantielles en termes de qualite de...

This paper reviews what has happened in the field of assessment since then. It deals with public examinations, but differs from the 1992 report in that, other than in regard to a few minor details, no new data were specifically collected for it. The paper revisits many of the issues that were...

More than years of schooling, it is learning, or the acquisition of cognitive skills, that improves individual productivity and earnings, with gains for aggregate income in the economy. It has been shown, for example, that a one standard deviation increase in student scores on international...

This introductory book describes the main features of national and international assessments, both of which became extremely popular tools for determining the quality of education in the 1990s and 2000s. This increase in popularity reflects two important developments. First, it reflects...