35th annual conference (2009)
Developing an E-assessment environment for the 21st century
Cito, the Dutch National Institute for Educational Measurement, has experimented with online and on demand testing, digital portfolio, adaptive tests and digital student monitoring systems. Cito also developed a variety…
project e-scape: creative performance … assessed with creative spectacles
Creative performance lies at the heart of every school subject. Innovative investigating in science, imaginative spatial exploration in geography, creative product development in design. Attempting to capture these creative performances…
Introducing the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination
A new academic structure will be implemented in Hong Kong in 2009. After completing a three-year junior secondary curriculum, all students will continue to study a three-year senior secondary curriculum.…
Accreditation and certification issues in Nigerian schools
Education is a big industry in Nigeria. At the Primary and Secondary (High school) levels schools are being established on a regular basis. It is however not an all comers…
Characterising Creativity: a holistic methodology for the assessment of creative works
This paper reports on the early stages of a design experiment in educational assessment that challenges the dichotomous legacy evident in many assessment activities. Combining social networking technologies with the…
Teacher assessment practices in South African schools
The Teacher Assessment Practices study was conducted by the Centre for Education Quality Improvement in collaboration with the National Department of Education as part of a national programme to implement…
THE EFFECT OF SCHOOL OWNERSHIP ON CANDIDATES’ PERFORMANCE AT THE WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) IN NIGERIA
There have been contentions that school ownership is one factor that affects learning activities which in turn affect performance of students. There is also a widely held view that students…
Marking essays on screen: an investigation into the reliability of marking extended subjective texts
There is a growing body of research literature that considers how the mode of assessment, either computer- or paper-based, might affect candidates’, performances (Paek, 2005). Despite this, there is a…