Tables of contents

Contents

Editorial

What does a grade mean?

Gordon Stobart

101

Papers

Examination standards and the limits of linking

Paul E Newton

105

Grade stability in a criterion-referenced grading system: the Swedish example

Christina Wikstrom

125

The fallibility of high stakes '11-plus' testing in Northern Ireland 

John Gardner and Pamela Crown

145

Large-scale diagnostic assessment: comparison of eighth graders' mathematics performance in the United States, Singapore and Israel

Menucha Birenbaum, Curtis Tatsuoka, Tao Xin

167

Validation and development of norms for the Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language-Revised (TACL-R) in Lebanon

Karma El Hassan, Rima Jammal

183

Profiles of educational assessment systems worldwide

Educational assessment in Danish schools

Niels Egelund

203

Editorial

Religious education research in an international context

Robert Jackson

201 

Obituary

The Reverend Professor Howard Marratt (1926–2004) 

Jack W.G. Hogbin

203 

Articles

A cross-cultural srtudy of pre-adolescents' moral, religious and spiritual questions 

Kirsi Tirri, Mary K Tallent-Runnels and Petri Nokelainen

207 

Student primary teachers and their experience of religious education in schools

Lynn Revell

215 

Professor Ninian Smart, phenomenology and religious education 

Kevin O'Grady

227

The case of the Jewish High School in Berlin: a denominational school dealing with diversity 

Christine Mueller

239 

The role of education in a Jewish community: a response to Jonathan Sacks 

Geoffrey Short

253 

Preparing primary school teachers to teach religious education

Elaine McCreery

265

Book reviews

The production and use of human capital: introduction

     Lex Borghans, Hans Heijke

133

The effect heterogeneity of central examinations: evidence from TIMSS, TIMSS-Repeat and PISA

     Ludger WÖßman

143

Rising academic standards and vocational concentrators: are they better off or worse off?

     John H Bishop, Ferran Mane

171 

Performance in European higher education: a non-parametric production frontier approach

     Othman Joumady, Catherine Ris

189 

The empirical determination of key skills from an economic perspective

     Jasper B van Loo, Bert Toolsema

207 

The role of specific and general human capital after displacement

     Ben Krielchel, Gerard A Pfann

223

Career progression: getting-on, getting-by and going nowhere

     Peter Dolton, Gerard Makepeace, Oscar D

     Marcenaro-Gutierrez

237

Consistencies and inconsistencies in students' solutions to algebraic 'single-value' inequalities

     P Tsamir & L Bazzini

793 

How to present it? On the rhetoric of an outstanding lecturer

     N Movshovitz-Hadar & O Hazzan

813 

Theoretical branches in teaching computer science

     H Habiballa & T Kmet

829 

The structuring of initial descriptions or demonstrations in the teaching of procedures

     M G Eley & P Norton

843 

Nascent function concepts in Nova Scientia

     C W Groetsch

867 

Modelling, simulation, animation, and real-time control (MoSART) for a class of electromechanical systems: a system-theoretic approach

     A A Rodriguez, R P Metzger, O Cifaloz, T Dhirasakdanon & B Welfert

877 

On the sum of certain convergent series associated with the beta function

     J N Nnadi

897 

An application of the Kronecker product in the theory of differential systems

     A Sandqvist & K M Andersen

902 

Application of vectors to relative velocity

     T Tin-Lam

906 

One approach to explore a range of problem solving strategies in the classroom

     E Mauch & Y Shi

912 

Cumulant-moment relations through determinants

     D S Broca

917 

Building higher-order Markov chain models with EXCEL

     W K Ching, E S Fung & M K Ng

921 

Analysis of quadratic diophantine equations with fibonacci number solutions

J V Leyendekkers and A G Shannon

932

On Flett's mean value theorem

J Tong

936