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Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) has been used in several development studies, but few have used it for the purposes of formative assessment. This article reports from a study where the...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article Meritocracy embodies tension(s) between its egalitarian and elitist strands, which in turn construct how “fairness” is construed in terms of educational opportunity and outcome. In this...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This article advances the argument that a priorities-based approach to assessment in early childhood education offers a middle way between inductive and deductive methods of assessment. A developing...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article The purpose of this study is to better understand the norms, processes, and implications of a standards-based assessment (SBA) system in a project-based, STEM-focused secondary school in the United...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article | Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
AM2018_12_105.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article Assessment for learning (AfL) improves student learning and achievement outcomes but, despite its positive effects, sustained implementation has been problematic. An examination of the policy...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: AM2018_12_080.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article A qualitative approach was used to investigate Year 12 secondary school students’ experiences, understandings and uses of written teacher feedback in classical studies. Participants in this small-...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This was a 3-year project that followed a cohort of initial teacher education (ITE) students from four universities over their 3-year programme. The project, “Learning to Become ‘Assessment...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article This study explored elementary and secondary school administrators’ perspectives on their attempts to build assessment literacy—an understanding of the principles and practices of sound assessment....
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article Māori language education settings have resulted in teachers requiring efficient ways to identify the oral Māori language proficiency of students at the beginning of Māori-immersion schooling and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article