36th annual conference (2010)
36th annual conference (2010)
Assessment for the future generations
EFL Writing Assessment Practices: Teachers’ Perspectives 62.47 KB 11 downloads
In classroom contexts, teachers as raters are required to assess students’,...
Equity and Equivalence in Language Examinations 53.12 KB 1 downloads
Increasingly there is a concern that all students, young and old, should have an...
Equity: Policy and Practice in Ticino and in Switzerland 109.96 KB 1 downloads
PISA 2006 results show that in Switzerland –, with its more than twenty school...
Evaluating the impact of Bahrain National Examinations: implementing a research agenda 74.48 KB 4 downloads
Excellence in education is part of Bahrain’,s vision for 2030. National Examinations...
Extended essay marking on screen: Is examiner marking accuracy influenced by marking mode? 149.16 KB 4 downloads
Background: In the UK and elsewhere, large-scale educational assessment agencies...
Externally moderated school-based assessment in Queensland: lessons for implementing an Australian curriculum 58.91 KB 1 downloads
In Queensland, senior secondary teachers are responsible for designing assessment...
General Speaking Ability: An Assessable Construct? 95.47 KB 1 downloads
In a study on large-scale oral assessment in Hong Kong, high correlations emerged...
Group Discussion Tests: investigating the construct of interaction 177.23 KB 1 downloads
A Group Discussion Test (GDT) is an assessment of conversational ability in which...
How can paper and pencil tests and performance assessments be used to effectively measure different knowledge types and skills in science? 98.63 KB 4 downloads
Science teaching has changed from a text-based to an activity based (hands-on) approximation....
How hard can it be? Issues and challenges in the development of a validation method for traditional written examinations 84.73 KB 12 downloads
There is a wealth of theoretical work on validity. However, translating this into...
Identification of Underachievers using a Common Scale 146.46 KB 3 downloads
Underachievement is wastage of human capital in the long run. Timely and accurate...
Impact of School Management factors on Academic Achievement of Primary School Pupils in Kenya 123.74 KB 1 downloads
Since the introduction of Free Primary Education in the year 2003 there has been...
Implications of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Teacher Education in Nigeria 262.41 KB 4 downloads
Admissions into tertiary education in Nigeria have been skewed towards University...
Integrated Assessment Systems for Improved Learning 740.01 KB 2 downloads
The use of assessments globally are changing from current accountability or outcomes...
Integrating English speaking tests in an EFL classroom: What teacher can learn from 48.24 KB 1 downloads
Thai universities have reformed their English language curriculum from grammar-based...
Keeping up Appearances: maintaining standards in Hong Kong’s Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE) 109.88 KB 3 downloads
The Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE) assesses the...
Making a change to teachers’ readiness of using Assessment for Learning for classroom teaching 896.85 KB 3 downloads
Black and Wiliam (1998) and the Assessment Reform Group (1999) point out that if...
On the Threshold of a New Period: Survival Pedagogy 101.03 KB 4 downloads
Because of the “,revolution of money”, the social-economic environment...