Can INCA tell me if there is a compulsory national assessment framework or if national testing is compulsory in other countries?
For detailed information, select the country of your choice from the “Select country” drop-down menu and ‘Assessment arrangements’ from the “Select subject/chapter heading” menu. Select ‘mainstream’ or ‘special’ from the “Select type of education” menu and click “Go”. ‘Assessment arrangements’ provides information on assessment across the four phases of the Archive (6.1 – pre-school, 6.2 – primary, 6.3 – lower secondary and 6.4 – upper secondary education in schools). Select the phase of your choice, for example, 6.2 compulsory primary education. Where compulsory national testing or national assessment frameworks exist, this will be mentioned under the ‘Control’ sub-heading. A summary of national assessment arrangements in the INCA countries, compiled in May 2007, was published as a thematic probe on the INCA website in August 2007. See the thematic probes section of the website. In addition, the INCA Comparative Tables provide a summary of assessment provision across the Archive count
