Francis Ndaji, Peter Tymms

The P Scales

Assessing the Progress of Children with Special Educational Needs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the use of the P scales is now a statutory requirement in England, this is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the assessment of children with special educational needs. This book charts the historical context for the development of the P scales from the Education Reform Act to the present day, and follows with a full introduction to the P scales: what they are, what they aim to do, and how they can be used to generate the most valuable assessment data. For the first time, the reliability and validity of assessments are discussed, and the extent to which the different scales are independent of one another is examined. With analysed data from over a quarter of a million pupils, the results presented are based on research that is not available elsewhere. Using extensive examples from the experiences of teachers and head teachers this unique book takes a practical look at the strengths of the scales as well as the issues that have been encountered in their use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780470518984
• ISBN-10: 0470518987
• Artikelnr.: 27870989

Autorenporträt

Francis Ndaji is the Manager of the P scales project at the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University, which runs projects monitoring the progress and attitudes of a million pupils across the UK each year. He previously taught in a secondary school before joining the research division of the National Metallurgical Development Centre of Nigeria, where he was Chief Chemist and Head of Division. He is a member of the Educational Evaluation Group. Peter Tymms is Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University. Peter was a teacher for many years before becoming an academic; his main areas of research include monitoring, assessment, interventions and research methodology generally. He devised the PIPS project, which is designed to monitor the affective and cognitive progress of children through primary schools. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the UKCeMGA of the Office of National Statistics.