Role and purpose of standards in the context of national curriculum and assessment reform for accountability, improvement and equity in student learning
Wyatt-Smith, Claire Maree Klenowski, Valentina
Wyatt-Smith, Claire Maree
Klenowski, Valentina
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Abstract
In this article our starting point is the current context of national curriculum change and intense speculation about the assessment, standards and reporting. It is written against a background of accountability measures and improvement imperatives, and focuses attention on standards as offering representations of quality. We understand standards to be constructs that aim to achieve public credibility and utility. Further, they can be examined for the purposes they seek to serve and also their expected functions. Fitness for purpose is therefore a useful notion in considering the nature of standards. Our interest in the discussion is the ‘fit’ between how standards are formulated and how they are used in practice, by whom and for what purposes. A related interest is in the matter of how standards can be harnessed to realise improvement.
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Date
2010
Type
Journal article
Journal
Curriculum Perspectives
Book
Volume
30
Issue
3
Page Range
37-47
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts