The Search for Better Educational Standards

1. Introduction
Martin Thrupp

2. High Stakes Assessment: Global Pressures and Local Responses
Martin Thrupp

3. The Kiwi Standards, Whanaketanga and the Available Research
Martin Thrupp

4. The Contested Introduction of the Kiwi Standards
Martin Thrupp

5. Neither National nor Standard
Martin Thrupp

6. Public Achievement Information and the Progress and Consistency Tool
Martin Thrupp

7. The Impact of the Kiwi Standards
Martin Thrupp

8. The Politics of Research
Martin Thrupp

9. The Kiwi Standards a Decade On: What Were They All About?
Martin Thrupp

10. International Responses: Bob Lingard, Meg Maguire and David Hursh
Martin Thrupp

Keywords: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education