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About the contributors |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Part 1 RESEARCHING NATIONAL EXAMINATION STANDARDS |
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1 The Standard Setting Project: Assessment paradigms |
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2 | (24) |
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2 Researching national examination standards: Our methods |
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26 | (15) |
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3 Researching national examination standards as an insider |
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41 | (13) |
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4 What is standard setting? |
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54 | (24) |
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5 Standard setting in Chile: The Prueba de Seleccion Universitaria |
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78 | (22) |
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The consequential dimension of validity in the Chilean university entry test |
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96 | (2) |
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Maria Teresa Florez Petour |
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Setting standards in the Chilean university entry test |
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98 | (2) |
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Francisco Javier Gil Llambias |
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6 Standard setting in England: A levels |
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100 | (19) |
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Explaining educational standards: The challenge of uncertainty |
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114 | (2) |
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Ensuring standards in English A levels |
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116 | (3) |
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7 Standard setting in France: The baccalaureat |
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119 | (14) |
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The baccalaureat: From elite selection to mass certification |
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128 | (3) |
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Grade comparability and the French baccalaureat |
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131 | (2) |
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8 Standard setting in Georgia: The Unified National Examinations |
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133 | (24) |
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Are low standards the same as no standards? |
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152 | (2) |
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Social needs and standard setting |
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154 | (3) |
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9 Standard setting in Ireland: The Leaving Certificate |
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157 | (25) |
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Does the Leaving Certificate reward LOT (lower order thinking) rather than HOT (higher order thinking)? |
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178 | (2) |
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The delicate task of standard setting |
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180 | (2) |
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10 Standard setting in Queensland: The Queensland Certificate of Education |
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182 | (30) |
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Managing the tension between performance standards and aggregate ranking |
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206 | (3) |
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The curious case of Queensland and a middle way for senior schooling assessment |
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209 | (3) |
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11 Standard setting in South Africa: The National Senior Certificate |
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212 | (23) |
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Ambitious objectives and persistent challenges: National examinations in post-apartheid South Africa |
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228 | (4) |
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Improving standards or establishing (or developing) performativity regimes? |
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232 | (3) |
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12 Standard setting in Sweden: School grades and national tests |
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235 | (22) |
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Standardization and variability |
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252 | (2) |
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From norm- to criterion-referenced grades in Sweden |
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254 | (3) |
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13 Setting standards in the United States: The Advanced Placement programme |
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257 | (27) |
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Context and change in standards setting |
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279 | (2) |
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Filling the aligned instructional system void: AP courses and exams in US high schools |
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281 | (3) |
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Part 3 DIFFERING MEASURES AND MEANINGS |
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14 The meaning of national examination standards |
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284 | (23) |
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15 Culture, context and controversy in setting national examination standards |
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307 | (24) |
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16 Setting standards in national examinations: What we have learnt |
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331 | (13) |
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Appendix A Attendees at the Brasenose College Symposium, 28 to 30 March 2017, Oxford University |
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Appendix B Guidelines for the exam board insider researcher |
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Index |
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