Assessment Policy Reform

Tina Isaacs is an Honorary Associate Professor of Educational Assessment at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. She specialises in assessment policy and politics and has written extensively about assessment policy in England and the US, as well as about culture and controversy in international examinations standards and comparative curriculum and assessment.Iasonas Lamprianou is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. In addition to his methodological interests, he specialises in high-stakes, large-scale assessments and investigates their footprint on the social and political fabric of local societies.

• Introduction – International assessment policy reform: nothing new under the sun 1. Is the English Baccalaureate a passport to future success? 2. National assessment policy reform 14–16 and its consequences for young people: student views and experiences of GCSE reform in Northern Ireland and Wales 3. Towards a national assessment policy in Switzerland: Areas of conflict in the use of assessment instruments 4. Teacher Evaluation as a Wicked Policy Problem 5. The development of assessment policy in Ireland: a story of junior cycle reform 6. Ambitious and Ambiguous: Shifting Purposes of National Testing in the Legitimation of Assessment Policies in Norway and Sweden (2000–2017)