This paper documents the development of performance standards for the Trinidad and Tobago primary school national assessments of educational achievement. Performance standards are written expectations of student achievement ...

The instrument Samples of Teaching Performance (STP) was developed to assess student teachers' capacity to plan, deliver and evaluate a unit of instruction. The current study reports consequential validity data collected ...

This paper compares the development, characteristics and implementation of standards in different OECD countries. More specifically, it focuses on three different levels for which standards can be developed: (i) students ...

This paper compares the development, characteristics and implementation of standards in different OECD countries. More specifically, it focuses on three different levels for which standards can be developed: (i) students ...

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence suggests that post-TB lung disease (PTLD) causes significant morbidity and mortality. The aim of these clinical standards is to provide guidance on the assessment and management of PTLD and ...

Purpose The use of standards is currently characterized by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as essential for the efficient development of products, processes, services and systems in organizations; that ...

Society has supplemented the mission of its schools. Now schools are to both sort students and bring all students to specified levels of competence. This has given rise to intense interest in formative assessment and the ...