‘[It] isn’t designed to be assessed how we assess’:Rethinking assessment for qualification in the context of the implementation of the Curriculum for Wales

This paper reports teacher and learner perspectives on how assessment and reform influences pedagogical practices and behaviours. The research was conducted in a context of policy reform, at a time when Wales’ revised General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) specifications had been implemented, and learners were preparing for their assessments; but, also during the period of debate on the development of Wales’ new curriculum, which has taken a distinct and contrasting position on assessment to the assumptions underlying the reform of Welsh GCSEs implemented from 2015. These data, therefore, offer unique insights into the affordances and limitations of two sharply contrasting systems at a time of considerable change, offering reflections on the current curriculum and its attendant assessment practices, and also a prospective analysis of how the principles embedded in the new curriculum could challenge these existing assumptions and conventions. Findings suggest that teachers and learners currently inhabit an assessment‐driven system, which encourages performative practices in pedagogy and is governed by external accountability; and that these practices are at odds with the principles of assessment articulated in Successful Futures. Consequently, teachers in this study expressed uncertainty about how assessment for certification purposes at GCSE could be compatible with the principles of the Curriculum for Wales

Transition to Specialty Practice Program characteristics and professional development outcomes

publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Transition to Specialty Practice Program characteristics and professional development outcomes journaltitle: Nurse Education Today articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2016.05.017 content_type: article copyright: © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd

Making the link Language learning 5-14 : English, Welsh, Welsh second language, modern foreign languages

Title from cover. - Added title in Welsh: Gwneud y Cysylltiad; dysgu iaith 5-14; Cymraeg, Saesneg, Ieithoedd tramor modern. Parallel text in English and Welsh, printed tete-becheSIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:m03/38980 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Examining success in Wales Qualifications statistics GCE VCE GCSE GNVQ Entery Level Certificates NVQ 2002 : asking questions, getting answers

Title from cover Added title in Welsh from cover: Llwyddiant mewn arholiadau yng Nghymru : ystadegau ar gymwysterau TAG, TAA, TGAU, GNVQ tystysgrifau lefel mynediad NVQ 2002 : gofyn cwestiynau, cael atebion. Parallel text in English and Welsh, printed tete-becheAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:m03/29651 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Food in the school curriculum in Wales

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Making effective use of assessment information Reporting: key stages 1-3: guidance for governors, headteachers, subject leaders/heads of departments and teachers

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Art in the National Curriculum in Wales

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Whole school approaches to developing IT capability Executive summary

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Wales Curriculum 2000 Key Stage 4; a guide for senior managers in schools in Wales

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