Assessment research

About Assessment

For students and others who wish to find out more about assessment, the leaflets Getting to Grips with Assessment will provide a useful starting point. The links below provide further information.

Types of assessment

• Attainment testing
• Selection
  • Verbal reasoning tests
  • Non-verbal reasoning tests
• Early years assessment
• Monitoring
• Value-added testing

Reliability, validity and error

• Reliability
  • How do you know your tests are reliable?
• Validity
  • Fair testing
• Confidence bands
• What are the effects of practice and coaching?

Measuring attainment

• Standardised scores and percentile ranks
• Age standardisation
  • Example of an age standardisation table

Key Stage testing

• Key stage 2 National Curriculum-based English test
• Mathematics tests
• [Science tests]
• National Curriculum levels

Further reading

• Assessment bibliography