TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of assessment policy in Ireland
T2 - a story of junior cycle reform
AU - MacPhail, Ann
AU - Halbert, John
AU - O’Neill, Hal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/5/4
Y1 - 2018/5/4
N2 - The more recent discussion in Ireland around post-primary teachers being responsible for assessing their own students’ work continues. The new junior cycle reform (covering the first three years of post-primary education) is concerned with making fundamental changes in approaches to learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment, with school-based assessment as an important element of the reform. This paper sets out to map assessment policy in a changing and contested assessment environment in the Republic of Ireland. The paper tells the story of assessment in junior cycle from the first progress report in 1999 on a review of the curriculum that had been introduced for students in the junior cycle of post-primary schools in 1989 to the 2015 Framework for Junior Cycle. We document the intention to move away from assessment as solely a means of making summative judgements towards assessment as a support of learning and teaching.
AB - The more recent discussion in Ireland around post-primary teachers being responsible for assessing their own students’ work continues. The new junior cycle reform (covering the first three years of post-primary education) is concerned with making fundamental changes in approaches to learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment, with school-based assessment as an important element of the reform. This paper sets out to map assessment policy in a changing and contested assessment environment in the Republic of Ireland. The paper tells the story of assessment in junior cycle from the first progress report in 1999 on a review of the curriculum that had been introduced for students in the junior cycle of post-primary schools in 1989 to the 2015 Framework for Junior Cycle. We document the intention to move away from assessment as solely a means of making summative judgements towards assessment as a support of learning and teaching.
KW - assessment policy
KW - examinations
KW - Ireland
KW - junior cycle
KW - School-based assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042910526&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0969594X.2018.1441125
DO - 10.1080/0969594X.2018.1441125
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042910526
SN - 0969-594X
VL - 25
SP - 310
EP - 326
JO - Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice
JF - Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice
IS - 3
ER -