35th annual conference (2009)

Externally moderated school-based assessment in Queensland – How we know that it works

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Jo MacDonald, Peter Jordan

In 1970 the last external Junior (Year 10) examinations were held in Queensland followed by the last external Senior (Year 12) examinations in 1972. Replacing the use of external examinations,…

An integrated approach to English as a Foreign Language assessment in a Chinese University: Teacher’s perspectives

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Qiuxian Chen

DIMENSIONS OF MONITORING AND ACCREDITATION OF SCHOOLS FOR PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Dr Felix Ikechukwu Williams Onwuakpa, Emmanuel I. Anyanwu

The credibility and quality of the results of public examinations in a given country depends to a large extent on the quality of the processes which are put in place…

Conceptualising an assessment for gifted students – how can we assess creativity?

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Ayesha Ahmed

How can we discover whether students are gifted in a subject? Can we conceive of an assessment that will allow these students to extend their work and be identified for…

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN AGRICULTURE

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Trust Mbako Masole

It is imperative to realize that quality education is neither measured by the number of children attending school nor confined to cognitive development only. Rather it is as much the…

HEY TEACHERS! LISTEN TO HOW YOUR STUDENTS ADJUDGE YOU AS EFFECTIVE.

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Dr Martha A Onjewu, Patience Dodo

What a teacher does in the classroom is no doubt a far greater predictor of students&#8217, success than anything else and it is a known fact that students who constantly…

Intention, interpretation and implementation: some paradoxes of Assessment for Learning across educational contexts

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Martin Johnson, Newman Burdett

The language of Formative Assessment, sometimes referred to as Assessment for Learning, is becoming ubiquitous within international educational discourse. Despite this, levels of common understanding might be considered questionable since…

Abolishing marksism and rescuing validity

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Alastair Pollitt

What could be more valid than judging that one piece of work is more creative than another? Or more effective? Or just better? And if many judges agree that the…

Assessment and Intervention in Technological Schools in the Arab Sector in Israel

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Hisham Jubran, Varda Sharoni

The goal of this article is to describe an educational intervention project in technological high schools in the Arab sector of the Israeli educational system. The intervention was in keeping…

Dealing with inconsistency and uncertainty in assessment

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Graham Maxwell

This symposium is about how we think about and talk about the concept of reliability, both technically and publicly. This paper explores some aspects of what we mean by reliability…

35th annual conference (2009)

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