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

This book offers the reader a detailed picture of the attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. Acknowledging the complexity of schools and schooling, the author demonstrates with charts, diagrams and data displays how reliable measures can be used to track pupils’ development, and demonstrates systematic data collection and interpretation based on the well established Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project. He addresses important policy and practical questions and reaches some surprising conclusions and identifies gaps in knowledge and outlines ways to fill them.