Further Performance Assessment

This chapter extends the story of our research endeavours in assessment, the first two projects dating from the early 1990s and the introduction of the National Curriculum. The importance of this first pair of accounts lies in the challenge of developing assessment instruments commissioned by a very assertive government agency, the School Examinations and Assessment Council. The politics of assessment is right at the surface of these two accounts and they illustrate our attempts to remain true to the spirit of the curriculum and supportive of teachers whilst managing the politics.