Learn about the contents of recent editions of journals on educational assessment at a glance
Current contents
Assessment in Education is the official journal of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA). Through membership of the IAEA, members will automatically receive copies of the journal. Additionally, members of the Association for Educational Assessment – Europe (AEA-Europe) can receive an individual print subscription to Assessment in Education at a special discounted rate for members. Please see the journal’s pricing or subscribe page for details.
Assessment in Education provides a focus for scholarly output in the field of assessment. The journal is explicitly international in focus and encourages contributions from a wide range of assessment systems and cultures. The journal’s intention is to explore both commonalities and differences in policy and practice.
Articles from the latest issue
- Critiquing the rationales for using comparative judgement: a call for clarity November 18, 2022
- COVID-19 impact on high stakes assessment: a New Zealand journey of collaborative adaptation amidst disruption November 14, 2022
- Global perspectives on the impact of situational factors on student testing October 12, 2022
- Conditioning: how background variables can influence PISA scores September 25, 2022
- Assessing fairness in selection toward applicants who request accommodations in higher education admissions tests September 14, 2022
- Student assessment literacy: indicators and domains from the literature September 12, 2022
- Washback of Spanish university entrance examination on chemistry teaching in upper secondary education September 12, 2022
- Equal opportunity or unfair advantage? The impact of test accommodations on performance in high-stakes assessments September 9, 2022
- New Zealand students’ test-taking motivation: an experimental study examining the effects of stakes August 4, 2022
- Accountability and assessment in U.S. education: let’s not allow another crisis go to waste! May 27, 2022
Current contents from other journals
Large Scale Assessments in Education (open access)
- Student achievement, school quality, and an error-prone family background measure: exploring the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley effect in Southern and Eastern Africa November 23, 2022
- The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition November 23, 2022
- Using country-specific Q-matrices for cognitive diagnostic assessments with international large-scale data November 21, 2022
- Impact of differential item functioning on group score reporting in the context of large-scale assessments November 15, 2022
- Does school SES matter less for high-performing students than for their lower-performing peers? A quantile regression analysis of PISA 2018 Australia November 11, 2022
Educational Assessment
- The Effects of Providing Students with Revision Opportunities in Alternate Assessments October 25, 2022
- The Nature of Cognitive Test Anxiety: An Investigation of the Factor Structure of the Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale October 6, 2022
- Predicting Retention in Higher Education from high-stakes Exams or School GPA October 5, 2022
- Assessment during COVID-19: Students and Teachers in Limbo When the Classroom Disappeared October 3, 2022
- To What Degree Does Rapid Guessing Distort Aggregated Test Scores? A Meta-analytic Investigation August 25, 2022
Applied Measurement in Education
- Using Bayesian Networks to Characterize Student Performance across Multiple Assessments of Individual Standards August 18, 2022
- Not-reached Items: An Issue of Time and of test-taking Disengagement? the Case of PISA 2015 Reading Data August 11, 2022
- When Should Individual Ability Estimates Be Reported if Rapid Guessing Is Present? July 27, 2022
- Response Demands of Reading Comprehension Test Items: A Review of Item Difficulty Modeling Studies July 22, 2022
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
- Automated marking of longer computational questions in engineering subjects November 12, 2022
- Factors associated with online examination cheating November 11, 2022
- Developing assessment literacy among trainee translators: scaffolding self and peer assessment as an intervention November 7, 2022
- A review of the changes in higher education assessment and grading policy during covid-19 November 3, 2022
- A practical approach to overcoming biases in comparing student performance in higher education November 3, 2022
Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
- Science teachers’ interactions with resources for formative assessment purposes November 2, 2022
- Assessment as a policy instrument and/or tool for professional development November 1, 2022
- Empathy as a selection criterion for medical students: is a valid assessment possible during personal interviews? A mixed-methods study November 1, 2022
- Teachers’ beliefs about assessment and accountability November 1, 2022
- Cognitive mechanisms for the formation of public perception about national testing: A case of NAPLAN in Australia November 1, 2022
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
- The 2023 EM:IP Cover Graphic/Data Visualization Competition November 25, 2022
- An Evaluation of Automatic Item Generation: A Case Study of Weak Theory Approach October 7, 2022
- An Investigation of the Nature and Consequence of the Relationship between IRT Difficulty and Discrimination September 9, 2022
- A Special Case of Brennan's Index for Tests That Aim to Select a Limited Number of Students: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study September 9, 2022
- Issue Cover September 8, 2022
Psychometrika
- Item Complexity: A Neglected Psychometric Feature of Test Items? December 1, 2022
- Computation for Latent Variable Model Estimation: A Unified Stochastic Proximal Framework December 1, 2022
- Item Response Thresholds Models: A General Class of Models for Varying Types of Items December 1, 2022
- Analysis of the Weighted Kappa and Its Maximum with Markov Moves December 1, 2022
- DIAGNOSTIC Classification Analysis of Problem-Solving Competence using Process Data: An Item Expansion Method December 1, 2022
Frontiers in Education
- Why are certain items more difficult than others in a competency test for music–related argumentation?
- A critical literature review on the washback effect of task-based vocabulary assessment on Iranian EFL learners
- Pairwise comparison scale extension using core linking sets
- Inclusion of technology affinity in self scale–Development and evaluation of a single item measurement instrument for technology affinity
- Item parameter estimations for multidimensional graded response model under complex structures