35th annual conference (2009)

Conceptualising an assessment for gifted students – how can we assess creativity?

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Ayesha Ahmed

How can we discover whether students are gifted in a subject? Can we conceive of an assessment that will allow these students to extend their work and be identified for…

IMPLEMENTING QUALITY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN AGRICULTURE

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Trust Mbako Masole

It is imperative to realize that quality education is neither measured by the number of children attending school nor confined to cognitive development only. Rather it is as much the…

HEY TEACHERS! LISTEN TO HOW YOUR STUDENTS ADJUDGE YOU AS EFFECTIVE.

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Dr Martha A Onjewu, Patience Dodo

What a teacher does in the classroom is no doubt a far greater predictor of students&#8217, success than anything else and it is a known fact that students who constantly…

Intention, interpretation and implementation: some paradoxes of Assessment for Learning across educational contexts

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Martin Johnson, Newman Burdett

The language of Formative Assessment, sometimes referred to as Assessment for Learning, is becoming ubiquitous within international educational discourse. Despite this, levels of common understanding might be considered questionable since…

Abolishing marksism and rescuing validity

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Alastair Pollitt

What could be more valid than judging that one piece of work is more creative than another? Or more effective? Or just better? And if many judges agree that the…

Assessment and Intervention in Technological Schools in the Arab Sector in Israel

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Hisham Jubran, Varda Sharoni

The goal of this article is to describe an educational intervention project in technological high schools in the Arab sector of the Israeli educational system. The intervention was in keeping…

Dealing with inconsistency and uncertainty in assessment

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Graham Maxwell

This symposium is about how we think about and talk about the concept of reliability, both technically and publicly. This paper explores some aspects of what we mean by reliability…

The Role and Purpose of Standards in the Context of National Curriculum and Assessment Reform for Accountability

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith, Professor Val Klenowski

There is an already strong and growing policy and public interest push at both national and international levels for public institutions, including corporations, hospitals, government agencies and schools, to be…

Successful National English Proficiency Testing Systems in Mainland China and Taiwan

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Byron Gong

While national college English proficiency tests are being carried out in virtually all universities in Mainland China and some universities in Taiwan, test designers and college English teachers are rising…

Creating behavioural change through assessment?

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Colin Mcdonnell, Greg Clewley, Jenny Grainger, Liz Bowen-Clewley, Stan Whitefield

Assessment by Professional Conversation&#8482, (APC) was originally developed as a tool for assessing current competence for high level, integrated performance, mainly in the management and service sectors. Use of the…

35th annual conference (2009)

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