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ERC Annual Conference on Educational Measurement

Educational Research Center (ERC) will hold its second annual conference on educational measurement on March 27, 2010, under the theme: Electronic assessment platforms and item banks The upcoming conference will be held in Lebanon on March 27, 2010. 

Second Annual Conference of Educational Research Center on Educational Measurement March 27, 2010.

Educational Research Center (ERC) will hold its second annual conference on educational measurement on March 27, 2010, under the theme: Electronic assessment platforms and item banks The upcoming conference will be held in Lebanon. Its venue will be set in due time.  This conference follows up on the successful first annual conference on Educational Measurement that ERC held March 28, 2009, under the patronage of HE Dr Yousry Saber Al-Gamal, Egyptian Minister of Education. The conference was held at Grand Hyatt hotel in Cairo, Egypt under the theme:Authentic assessmentfor meaningful learning and informed educational policyThe conference addressed then: (a) major issues that influence the integration of assessment in the learning process, and (b) the impact of assessments, especially high-stakes exit exams, on secondary school graduates and society at large.  The upcoming conference will address the following issues:

  1. What are electronic assessment platforms, and what functions do they serve in education?
  2. How such platforms are deployed in the construction of item banks, and what are these banks good for?
  3. How do electronic platforms and item banks contribute to authentic assessment and meaningful learning?
  4. What factors govern the efficiency of platforms and banks?
Plenary sessions will be held the morning of Saturday March 27, 2010. Keynote speakers will include renowned Arab and international guests whose work about the theme of the conference is highly recognized worldwide.  Parallel sessions will be held in the afternoon. Educational measurement experts will contribute 30-minute papers to the sessions, in English or Arabic, around topics related to the conference theme.

This story was last updated on: 5 Nov 2009