Baseline Assessment and Monitoring in Primary Schools Achievements, Attitudes and Value-added Indicators

First Published in 1999. This book offers the reader a detailed picture of attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. Acknowledging the complexity of schools and schooling, Peter Tymms shows with many charts, diagrams and data displays how reliable measures can be used to track pupils' development. Systematic data collection and interpretation are based on the well-established Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project. Important policy and practical questions are addressed, and some surprising conclusions are reached. Gaps in knowledge are also identified and way to full them are outlines. Teachers, headteachers, middle managers, policy makers, INSET providers in primary schools and student teachers will welcome this text.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Baseline and other assessments; Chapter 3 Achievements and the differences between pupils; Chapter 4 Value-added; Chapter 5 Attitudes; Chapter 6 How to live in a fog; Chapter 7 What we do and do not know and how we can find things out;

Peter Tymms, Reader in Education, School of Education, University of Durham and Director of the Performance Indicators in Primary Schools (PIPS) project.