Martinez-Sainz, G. and Devine, D. and Sloan, S. and Symonds, Jennifer and Ioannidou, O. and Moore, B. and Crean, Margaret and Barrow, N. and Grieves, M. and Gleasure, S. and Donegan, A. and Samonova, Elena and Davies, A. and Stynes, H. and Farrell, E. and O'Giobuiin, R. and Smith, A. and Farrell, J. and Gilligan, E. (2023) Curriculum and Assessment in Children’s School Lives: Experiences from Primary Schools in Ireland 2019–2023. Project Report. NCCA, Dublin.

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Abstract

Understanding Children’s School Lives (CSL) requires an in-depth exploration of how children experience the curriculum and assessment in their everyday lives, the focus of this thematic report. A core aspect of the CSL study has been to capture children’s voice and understand their experiences as they progress through primary school. In this report we place children’s experiences of curriculum and assessment practices at the centre of the analysis. While their voices are central, we present these also in the context of the perspectives of key adult decision makers in children’s lives: teachers, principals, and their parents. Relationships are at the core of the teaching and learning processes, as the evidence from the previous report on Pedagogy (Report 5)1 shows. For this reason, we explore teachers’ and principals’ experiences of both curriculum and assessment to better understand children’s experiences as these are framed within the complex challenges faced by school communities. Finally, a key element we explore in this report is the family dynamics around experiences of the curriculum, assessment and out of school learning by considering parents’ views and concerns. Each of these perspectives provides a wider lens into the rationale behind and experience of curricular and assessment practices in primary schools, and in the case of parents, their priorities and experiences, including the key insights they have over how their children respond to and engage with their learning.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Keywords:	Curriculum; Assessment; Children’s School Lives; Experiences; Primary Schools; Ireland; 2019–2023;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies
Item ID:	19036
Depositing User:	Dr Margaret Crean
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2024 14:52
Publisher:	NCCA
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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