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Analytical report as a tool in ensuring the validity of examinations

It is crucial for educational organization, especially those which main focus is testing&#160,assessment quality to ensure that students achieve the results stipulated by subject&#160,programme.Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools is implementing external summative assessment&#160,(ESA) which is absolutely different from National Testing System in structure and&#160,content, and is aimed to assess 21-century skills.Th&#1077, present research is based on first ESA results which are processed and&#160,summarized in Analytical Report (2013-2014). It was important to see how students&#160,succeed and what kind of improvements should be made.&#160,For example, it was obvious that students demonstrate the higher-order thinking&#160,skills, on the other hand, results showed lower performance on some subjects where&#160,functional reading skills were assessed.The aim of this study is to examine the Report and to identify the validity of the&#160,assessment.Keywords: external summative assessment, Analytical report, validity of&#160,examinations, NIS.

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