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Too Eagerly Awaited Assessment?
Author(s) -
Hayes Stephen
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8578.1991.tb00845.x
Subject(s) - borough , education act , curriculum , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , special education , political science , public administration , psychology
Stephen Hayes, educational psychologist in the London Borough of Camden, shares the previous writer's view that Section 19 of 1988 Education Reform Act may be viewed negatively. It is, he says, suspected of working against both the integration aims of the 1981 Education Act and the Warnock model of school‐based assessment. However he argues that there is potential compatibility between the curricular integration thrust of the 1981 Act and the introduction of the National Curriculum for all pupils in the 1988 Act. Conflict is more likely to arise within the 1988 Act itself, with the market forces thrust of local management of schools calling into question the continuation of rigorously conducted, school‐based assessment.