Doug McCurry

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…

A High Degree of Difficulty: Assessing Higher-order Thinking in Cross-curricular Tests with Multiple Choice Items

August 2, 2018

34th annual conference (2008), Doug McCurry

Testing Generative Rather Than Convergent Thinking with Open-ended Tasks

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Doug McCurry

This paper considers the use of open-ended assessment tasks that test generative thinking as distinct from closed tasks that test convergent thinking. The notions of generative and convergent thinking are…

Promoting 21st century skills: Self-directed Research for Senior Secondary Students

August 2, 2018

40th Annual Conference (2014), Doug McCurry, Margaret Mackenzie

A new senior secondary study in Victoria, Australia &#8211, VCE Extended Investigation &#8211, provides an opportunity for students to develop, apply and extend knowledge and skills in critical thinking and…

Doug McCurry

Teachers Making Contextualised, Group Judgements of Generic Skills and Dispositions

A High Degree of Difficulty: Assessing Higher-order Thinking in Cross-curricular Tests with Multiple Choice Items

Testing Generative Rather Than Convergent Thinking with Open-ended Tasks

Promoting 21st century skills: Self-directed Research for Senior Secondary Students

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