New developments in educational assessment edited by H D Black and W B Dockrell.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, Criterion-referenced assessment: what role for research?, The role of descriptive and normative techniques in examination assessment, Grade-related criteria: The Scottish experience, Issues in the implementation of graded testing, The National Certificate: An example of modular-based criterion-referenced assessment in practice, Accreditation of work-based learning - A new approach for education, training and employment, The assessment of competencies, Issues in the assessment of affective characteristics, It's Ma Faither that hits me: some pupils' views on the importance of school reports and their repercussions, Research and policy-making in assessment - some unanswered questions, The impact of Scottish national surveys of achievement on policy and practice.

In the last five years or so there has been a marked change in emphasis in assessment in Britain, as a result of technical developments like criterion- referencing, partly as a result of classroom developments like graded testing and partly in response to new demands like profiling. This monograph contains papers which cover many of these new issues, all of them with an emphasis on the contribution of research.