Assessment Matters 4 explores questions of assessment practice and how assessment practices known to support learning might be facilitated. Articles discuss:

• implementing assessment for learning
• maintaining a community of practice around moderation processes
• making overall teacher judgements
• incorporating likeability in low-stakes performance tasks
• assessing learning for summative and accountability purposes without resorting to national testing
• using exemplars to make assessment judgements about learners with special educational needs
• setting a big-picture policy direction for building teacher and student assessment capability.

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