Collaborative Portfolio Assessment in the English Secondary School System
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~drrussel/papers/Asssess%20England%20CH.doc
  peer-reviewed

Russell, David R.
Iowa State University
1995

Abstract:

In the last decade, several groups in the US have also been working toward performance assessment that is tied to the curriculum and assessed by collaboratively by teachers: the New Standards Project, the College Board Pacesetter Project, and several state assessment projects. This paper describes the English system not as a model to be imitated—there are profound differences in the two societies and their education systems—but as a point of reference, a means of seeing the US system and the recent reform efforts in comparative perspective.