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Developing capacity in formative assessment

September 28, 2019

ACER designed and facilitated a NEQMAP workshop to build formative assessment capacity in education systems in the Asia-Pacific. Doug McCurry and Stewart Monckton report.A consortium of high-level education policymakers, researchers,…

News from the 45th annual conference

September 26, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news, International news

IAEA president: This conference is an opportunity to exchange ideas about different advances in the field of education and educational assessment, and to learn from one other, IAEA President Randy…

UP to upgrade secondary school exam system with AI to make education corruption-free

September 21, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to upgrade the examination system for secondary school education by using Artificial Intelligence AI-bots.With AI-bots installed in Uttar Pradesh schools, the system will be…

The Meritocracy Is Under Siege

June 16, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The debate over meritocracy has been intensifying. Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Do we want it or don’t we? The worldwide demand for talent and the accelerated…

College Board will add ‘adversity score’ for everyone taking the SAT

May 20, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The College Board has for several years been testing an “adversity index” designed to place students’ SAT scores in the context of their socioeconomic advantages or disadvantages. The system has…

PISA founder Andreas Schleicher on the future of the education ranking

April 6, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The global education ranking system, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, is changing to put more emphasis on measuring 21st-century skills, such as creativity and digital literacy and…

PISA set to change

March 24, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The OECD is working to move its international testing program away from standardised, summative testing as debate about the value of such assessments grows louder in Australia and around the…

Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?

March 19, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

Perhaps no tests have higher stakes in the United States than the SAT and the ACT. For decades the scores were a key data point on the application for virtually…

Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education”

March 4, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

The Institute of Education at HSE University Russia welcomes applications for the upcoming Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education” Dates: August 05–10, 2019 Venue: HSE University…

Thousands of foreign students caught in limbo by scandal

February 8, 2019

Peter Hermans

Association news

Thousands of foreign students caught up in an English-language test cheating scandal in Britain five years ago are still in limbo, unable to prove their innocence, with their visas revoked…

Association news

Developing capacity in formative assessment

News from the 45th annual conference

UP to upgrade secondary school exam system with AI to make education corruption-free

The Meritocracy Is Under Siege

College Board will add ‘adversity score’ for everyone taking the SAT

PISA founder Andreas Schleicher on the future of the education ranking

PISA set to change

Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?

Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education”

Thousands of foreign students caught in limbo by scandal

The IAEA

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