No matter where we are in the world, assessment issues continue to cause debate and contention. Continual international comparisons of student performance, such as PISA, as well as those used...
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Assessment Matters 6: 2014
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Assessment practices in higher education focus on evaluating student learning. Institutions are now expected to provide improvement-oriented assessments that help students to improve their work....
This article details the use of Q methodology (Q) for eliciting different views of classroom assessment among Singaporean teachers. Q is purported to be useful for studying the tacit decision-...
Since 2007, substantial restructuring of New Zealand’s national school curriculum has occurred. This change has been paralleled by extensive revisions to New Zealand’s high-stakes assessment...
This article describes the use of Rasch measurement to improve criteria-based analytical marking keys. The instruments and data described result from a research project which investigated the use...
The implementation of a new national curriculum and standards-referenced assessment in Australia has been an opportunity and a challenge for teacher assessment practices. In this case study of...
The report Directions for Assessment in New Zealand (Absolum, Flockton, Hattie, Hipkins, & Reid, 2009) envisages an “assessment capable” system where students are empowered to become...
Gayle Eyers reviews Lorna M. Earl. (2013). Assessment as learning: Using classroom assessment to maximize student learning (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4522-...
The general editor of Assessment Matters invites interested people to submit articles in the field of assessment in education. The intended readership for these articles is researchers,...