38th annual conference (2012)
Creating high-stakes tests that have positive effects on instruction
What are tests, their objectives and how can these be qualified in qualitative ways, without compromising assessment standards? What is the essence of high stake tests, what kinds of assessments…
Improving educational assessment in Nigerian school system: implication for ODLS
A nation’,s educational system is her greatest asset for human capacity development in all sectors of the economy. Hence, instructional leaders of the educational system employ the process of evaluation,…
Assessment Through Evaluating Sources in Social Studies
The  ,Article  ,Review  ,as  ,an  ,alternative  ,mode of  ,assessment,  ,enables  ,students  ,to  ,apply disciplinary concepts in evaluating perspectives contained in sources. They evaluate the usefulness of such sources in contributing…
Language awareness in assessment and teaching: Cambridge bilingual research and support
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) is attempting to build an understanding of best practice in the area of bilingual education to guide future developments in language awareness and bilingual assessment which…
Critical Issue: Improving Classroom Assessment in Secondary Schools in Nigeria
Classroom assessments are designed and administered by classroom teachers. These assessments plays essential role in determining students progression from one class to another and as continuous assessment for high-stake examinations.…
Essential assessment literacies for teachers: A focus on learning improvement and accountability
Internationally there is ample evidence of the high priority given to educational assessment, with governments increasingly calling for evidence of student and school achievement. Against this backdrop, this paper addresses…
From laissez-faire to standardized tests to holistic assessment: Efforts to infuse “authentic intellectual quality” into the Malay language assessment tasks in Singapore
Secular education in the form of Malay school was not introduced in Singapore until the coming of the British colonial in late 19th century.  ,In the early years of its…
Assessing the level of state language proficiency of the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan by testing method
In multinational and independent Kazakhstan according to official figures there are more than 130 nationalities. The status of state language in the country has been defined by the Constitution of…