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Assessment Matters 11: 2017

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Author(s): Mary Hill
Author(s): Liying Cheng, Wei Yan, Yi Mei, and Christopher DeLuca

 

As one of the most high-stakes practices in education, grading has been the subject of significant debate and research over the years. However, it is only recently that researchers have...

Author(s): Liying Cheng, Wei Yan, Yi Mei, and Christopher DeLuca

As one of the most high-stakes practices in education, grading has been the subject of significant debate and research over the years. However, it is only recently that researchers have started to...

Author(s): Yasuko Shimojima and Masahiro Arimoto

The dichotomy between content knowledge and 21st-century skills (“zest for life” in the Japanese context) has been an issue since the early 2000s in Japan. Recently it has been evident in the...

Author(s): Sue Edwards

It has been mandatory since March 2015 for New Zealand schools to use the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) (Ministry of Education, 2008) to determine English language...

Author(s): Vicki Thorpe, Hannah Gilmour, and Kathleen Walton-Roy

This article considers the assessment of individuals’ contributions to collaborative creative groups. It draws on research into collaborative group composing and its relationship to a secondary...

Author(s): Amanda Harper and Gavin Brown

Students often report that feedback experiences at university are insufficient to make progress. The size of many large courses means the provision of personalised and timely feedback to...

Author(s): Donna Price, Jeffrey K. Smith, and David A. G. Berg

This research compares the relative effectiveness and efficiency of personalised feedback versus annotated exemplars as two approaches to providing high school students with formative feedback in...

Author(s): Michelle Searle, Amani Elrofaie, Lori C. Kirkpatrick, Adrienne Sauder, and Heather M. Brown

This study involved a group of 61 teachers in Ontario, Canada, who participated in a case study about classroom assessment practices. The participants were part of a district one-to-one technology...