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The authors of this chapter are researchers in the area of teacher training and school development, and have participated in several school development projects with teachers and principals in both primary and secondary schools. This chapter focuses on a local “Assessment For Learning” project with 19 schools over a period of two and a half years, where action research was used to develop new practices related to assessment for learning.
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Furu, E.M., Lund, T. (2014). Development Teams as Translators of School Reform Ideas. In: Rönnerman, K., Salo, P. (eds) Lost in Practice. Pedagogy, Education and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-722-3_9
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