Written Evidence for the Inquiry into Secondary Education : Student Achievement / Stephen Gorard and Emma Smith.

The validity of public examinations as measures of academic achievement is not perfect, and the generalizability of paper-and-pencil tests to real-life tasks is rather low. In the United Kingdom, small differences between levels of attainment on public examinations cannot be attributed to real diffe...

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Main Author: Gorard, Stephen
Other Authors: Smith, Emma (Professor)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2003.
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Physical Description:16 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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