32nd annual conference (2006)

Teachers Making Contextualised, Group Judgements of Generic Skills and Dispositions

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), Doug McCurry, Margaret Mackenzie

This paper outlines a project of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, in collaboration with the Australian Council for Education Research that has been running since 2001. Different teachers of…

Teachers’ assessment practices for classroom diversity

August 2, 2018

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32nd annual conference (2006), Dr Rita Berry

Classrooms nowadays are exemplified by student diversity. Students may differ in, for example, motivation, learning style, aptitude, cultural background, social economic states, and past learning experience. As students’ learning needs…

Teachers’ and Students’ Experiences of Standards-Based Assessment in New Zealand

August 2, 2018

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32nd annual conference (2006), Dr David Philips

The implementation in New Zealand of a standards-based assessment system for secondary qualifications since 2002 has changed the focus of assessment in the last three years of secondary schooling. Students…

The CITO Examination System

August 2, 2018

Peter Hermans

32nd annual conference (2006), PhD Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen

Dutch schools all are online, which opens possibilities for a fully web based assessment system. But what is online? Cito has to deal with a wide variety in bandwidths, intranet…

Using the results of the entrance examinations to the universities during the examinations to the master degree

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), M Abbaszade, R Huseynov

Since 1997 the universities of Azerbaijan passed on to a new two stage education system for our country, bachelor and master stages. The admission procedure to master programs for that…

The Computer as a Silent Partner in Essay Sc

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), David Navon, Yoav Cohen

Psychometric measurement based on subjective judgments of performance quality (e.g., essay ratings) is, typically, not very reliable. The subjective judgments are often integrated into a single score by means of…

What does it mean for a test to be at a particular level?

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), José Noijons

Increasingly, language tests in Europe are being linked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) developed by the Council of Europe. The framework distinguishes levels of language competence in…

The Effects of Inclusion of Native Speakers’ Writing Samples on the Domain Scoring Accuracy of Automated Essay Scoring of Writing Submitted by Taiwanese English Language Learners

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), Cathy Mikulas, Paul Edelblut

While the scoring accuracy of automated scoring of essays written in English has been established, more research is needed with regards to domain scoring for English Language Learners. This paper…

What’s holding things up?

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), David Gleave

It is more than five years since the Web-Based Education Commission to the President and Congress made the pithy and wickedly accurate observation: &quot,Too often today&#8217,s tests measure yesterday&#8217,s skills…

The Impact of Item Formats on Singaporean Students’ Performance in the Trends of International Mathematics and Science Study

August 2, 2018

32nd annual conference (2006), Berinderjeet Kaur, Kadriye Ercikan, Kim Hong Koh

In many of the large-scale international assessments (e.g., TIMSS, PISA), both multiple-choice and constructed-response item formats are used to assess student achievement. In terms of measuring learning outcomes, it is…

32nd annual conference (2006)

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