This document provides a list of resources on assessment themes in alphabetical order. It includes websites, publications, and other resources from organizations like the Assessment Reform Group and individual authors like Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. The list was originally created based on recommendations from workshops in the UK in 2012 to provide a record of contributors' views, and is not intended to be exhaustive. Links were last checked in February 2016.

1. Theme: Assessment
This is one of 11 lists of themed resources originally created as a result of recommendations by
participants at a series of eight HEA workshops held around England in spring/summer 2012. In this
sense, they form a record of the views of the particular contributors, and are not intended to be
exhaustive, or exclusive.
Lists are in alphabetical order, and enough information is included in the referencing to allow
resources to be located readily. If the resource lists are to be used (in course documentation,
academic work, etc.), you may need to adapt this to fit your own institutional referencing
requirements.
Links checked 23 February 2016
Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment website -
http://www.aaia.org.uk/
Assessment Reform Group (archived) publications on AfL:
Gardner, J (Ed) (2011) Assessment and Learning (2nd Ed)
TLRP/ARG (2009) Assessment in schools: Fit for purpose? Available at
http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/assessment.pdf
ARG (2006) The Role of Teachers in the Assessment of Learning. Available at
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/The-role-of-teachers-in-the-
assessment-of-learning.pdf
ARG (2002) Testing, Motivation and Learning. Available at:
http://www.aaia.org.uk/content/uploads/2010/06/Testing-Motivation-and-Learning.pdf
ARG (2002) Assessment for Learning: 10 Principles. Available at
http://www.aaia.org.uk/afl/assessment-reform-group/
Black, P. (1998). Testing: friend or foe? Theory and practice of assessment and testing, London:
Falmer Press, chapters 2 & 3.
Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (1998) Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom
assessment. Available at http://weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf
Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (1998) Assessment and Classroom Learning, Assessment in Education. Vol. 5,
No.1, pp 7-74.
Black, P., Harrison, C., Lee, C., Marshall, B. & Wiliam, D. (2002) Working inside the Black Box.
Broadfoot, P. (2007). An Introduction to Assessment, London: Continuum.
Clarke, S. (2008) Active Learning through Formative Assessment. Hodder Education.

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Clarke, S. (2001) Unlocking Formative Assessment: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Pupils'
Learning in the Primary Classroom. Hodder Education.
Clarke, S. (2003) Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom: Oral and Written Feedback from
Teachers and Children. Hodder Education.
Clarke, S. (2005) Formative Assessment in Action: weaving the elements together. Hodder Education.
Crooks, T.J., Kane, M.T. and Cohen, A.S. (1996). ‘Threats to the valid use of assessments’,
Assessment in Education, 3 (3), 265 – 285.
DCSF (2009) The Report of the Expert Group on Assessment. Available at
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/10585/
DCSF (2008) The Assessment for Learning Strategy. Available at http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/8161/
DfE (no date) Testing and assessment. (This document used to be regularly updated information
about the statutory assessments at the end of Key Stages). Available at
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/assessment.
DfE (2014) National curriculum and assessment: information for schools. Available at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-and-assessment-information-for-
schools
DfES (2004) Pedagogy and Practice - Unit 12: Assessment for learning. Available at
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/5676/
Education Scotland resources available at
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/learningteachingandassessment/assessment/index.asp
Gardner, John (ed.), (2012). Assessment and Learning. 2nd edition. London: Sage.
Gipps, C. (1995) Beyond Testing: towards a theory of educational assessment. London: The Falmer
Press.
Also re-published (2012) in the Routledge Education Classic Edition Series.
Haertel, E. (2013). ‘How Is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?’ Measurement: Interdisciplinary
Research and Perspectives, 11(1-2), 1-18
Harlen, W. (2007). ‘Meanings, processes and properties of assessment’, in Assessment of Learning,
London: Sage, 11 – 23.
Harlen, W. (2012). ‘On the Relationship between Assessment for Formative and Summative
Purposes’, in J. Gardner (ed.), Assessment and Learning, 2nd edition. London: Sage, pp. 87 – 102.
Isaacs, T. (2012) ‘Assessment in Education in England’ SA-eDUC JOURNAL, 9 ( 1), 1-17
http://www.nwu.ac.za/webfm_send/57761
Isaacs, T., Zara, C. and Herbert, G. (2013), Key Concepts in Educational Testing. London: Sage.
Koretz, D. (2009). ‘What is a Test’, in Measuring Up, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 16 –
34.
Linn, R. (2000). ‘Assessment and Accountability’, Educational Researcher 29 (2), 4 -16.
Mansell, W. and James, M. (2009). Assessment in Schools: Fit for Purpose? London: TLRP.
Mislevy, R. J. (2013). ‘Measurement is a Necessary but not Sufficient Frame for Assessment’.
Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 11(1-2), 47-49
Newton, A. and Bowler, M. (2010) Assessment for and of Learning, in Capel, S and Whitehead, M.
(Eds) Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School (3rd Edn.), pp119-133. London:
Routledge.

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Newton, P. (2007). ‘Clarifying the purposes of educational assessment’, Assessment in Education 14
(2), 149 – 170.
Newton, P.E. (2013). ‘Ofqual’s Reliability Programme: a case study exploring the potential to improve
public understanding and confidence’. Oxford Review of Education, 39 (1), 1-19.
Nuttall, D. (1995). ‘The validity of assessments’. In Murphy, R. and Broadfoot, P. Effective
Assessment and the Improvement of Education. A Tribute to Desmond Nuttall (Falmer), 145 - 157.
Oates, T. (2010) Could do better: Using international comparisons to refine the National Curriculum
in England, Cambridge Assessment. Available at
http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/images/112281-could-do-better-using-international-
comparisons-to-refine-the-national-curriculum-in-england.pdf
Ofsted/DfE (no date) RAISEonline website. (Provides schools, school improvement partners, local
authorities and inspectors with a flexible online system for exploring and interrogating performance
data to support evaluation and inform school improvement) Available at www.raiseonline.org
Pearson Policy Watch Think Tank (2013), Pocket Watch – Holding primary education to account.
Available at http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-holding-primary-education-to-
account/
Phelps, R. (2012): The Effect of Testing on Student Achievement, 1910–2010, International Journal
of Testing, 12:1, 21-43.
Ripley, M (2008) ‘Technology in the service of twenty-first century learning’ in S. Swaffield (ed),
Unlocking Assessment: understanding for reflection and application, London: Routledge, 154 – 172
Sambell, K. (2011) Exploring the Rules of Engagement via Exemplars: enhancing staff and student
dialogue about assessment and learning practice, ESCalate funded Project (HEA). Available at
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Public/Education/Documents/Research/ESCalateDocuments/ESCalateDeve
lopingPedagogyAndPracticeFinalReport10January.pdf
Stobart, G. (2005). ‘Fairness in multicultural assessment systems’, Assessment in Education, 12 (3),
275 – 287.
Stobart, Gordon (2008). Testing Times – The Uses and Abuses of Assessment. Abingdon: Routledge.
Stobart, G., & Eggen, T. (2012). High-stakes testing–value, fairness and consequences. Assessment
in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 19 (1), 1-6.
Teachers TV (archived) (2005) Hot Research: Assessment for learning. Available at
http://archive.teachfind.com/ttv/www.teachers.tv/whole-school/secondary/formative-
assessment.html.
Teachers TV (archived) (2007) Formative Assessment and Personalised Learning –Secondary.
Available at http://archive.teachfind.com/ttv/www.teachers.tv/videos/formative-assessment-and-
personalised-learning-secondary.html
Wiliam, D. (2000). ‘Education: meanings and consequences of educational assessments’, Critical
Quarterly, 42 (1), 105 – 127.
Wiliam, D. (2000). ‘Reliability, Validity and All That Jazz’. Education, 29 (3), 9 – 13.
Wiliam, D. (2010). ‘Standardized Testing and School Accountability’, Educational Psychologist, 45 (2),
107 – 122
Wiliam, D. (2011). What is AFL? Studies in Educational Evaluation, 37 (1), 3 – 14 Papers on
assessment by Dylan Wiliam can be downloaded from this page:
http://www.dylanwiliam.org/Dylan_Wiliams_website/Papers.html