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Professor Mary E. James works part-time for the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge as Associate Director of Research. She is also President of the British Educational Research Association.

Part One: Educational Evaluation for Innovation and Change 1. School Self-Evaluation for the Improvement of Educational Practice: Some theoretical issues 2. School Self-Evaluation: Patterns of emerging practice 3. HOw Shal we Know Success: Alternative waysof developing criteria for judging the effectiveness of educational programmes, with reference to PSHE 4. Evaluation for Policy: Rhetoric and political reality Part 2: Educational Assessment and Learning 5. Negotiation and Dialogue in Student Assessment by Teachers 6. Assessment for Learning 7. Assessment, Learning and the Improvement of Students 8. Systems for Moderation by Teachers to Enhance the Quality of Assessment 9. Measured Lives: The rise of assessment as the engine of change in English schools 10. Assessment in Harmony with our Understanding of Learning Part Three: Educational Research and the Development of Curriculum and Pedagogy 11. Embedding and Spreading Assessment for Learning and Learning How to Learn Ideas and Practices Within and Beyond the Classroom 12. Ten Principles for Effective Pedagogy 13. Lawrence Stenhouse's Process Model of Curriculum Research and Development Revisited