Re-examining success : raising pupils' examination performance at secondary school : systems, techniques, processes and partners /

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Provides the research and practical insights required for secondary schools to radically review and remodel exam preparation provision with a view to ensuring more pupils, particularly those that are vulnerable, can perform to their potential.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, David W (Teacher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: St Albans : Critical Publishing, 2020.
Colección:Practical teaching
Temas:
Examinations.
Educational tests and measurements.
Examens.
Tests et mesures en éducation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Epigraph
  • Meet the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Bibliography
  • Section A Building a whole-school programme for learning transformation
  • 1. The examinations process
  • Limitations of the format of the examination system
  • Limitations of the equality of opportunity of the examinations system
  • Limitations of the scope of the examinations system
  • Universal education provision with a tripartite element
  • Limited attempts at reform of the examinations system
  • Bibliography
  • 2. Defining a generation for learning
  • Talking about a generation
  • The technological generation
  • Snapshots of the future
  • Current government thinking and the challenge facing us
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • 3. The demise of the knowledge-based curriculum
  • Rethinking education: closed systems and international developments
  • Systemic failings of national education systems
  • The examination process: an engine of educational change?
  • International precedents
  • The tyranny of the subject and the limitation of learning change
  • Defining the twenty-first-century learner: autonomous and independent
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • 4. Whole-school learning initiatives
  • School-level traditions dictating learning practice
  • The challenges of planning internal change
  • The lure of the magic bullet and INSET days in learning development
  • Building on solid principles: defining teaching and learning
  • A short history of the impact of new learning initiatives
  • Change structures in schools
  • The focus on differences in learning inherent in subject department autonomy
  • Bibliography
  • 5. From education to learning
  • Defining the interaction between the education system and learning experienced by the individual
  • From education to learning: the pupil experience
  • Critical facets of pupil development and experience
  • Physiological factors
  • Psychological factors
  • Social factors
  • A hierarchy of learning needs to be addressed
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • 6. Attitudes, behaviours and competences for the future
  • Template for the future learner
  • The dead hand of government in education and learning
  • What the TALIS tables don't tell us: underlying values and professionalism
  • Lessons from abroad: developing practice in Finland and Singapore
  • The missing links: a template for change
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • 7. The challenge of the future
  • The challenge of defining the future
  • The increasing redundancy of the knowledge-based curriculum
  • Failing to meet learning needs: the learning experience of pupils during revision
  • Assessment: changing what is valued to change behaviours
  • Facets of independent and autonomous learning among pupils
  • The quest for personalised learning: methodologies and assessment
  • Bibliography

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