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Student Assessment In Madhya Pradesh, Acer India Jan 2024

Student Assessment In Madhya Pradesh, Acer India

ACER India

ACER will build a student assessment system in Madhya Pradesh as part of Rajya Shiksha Kendra (RSK)’s School Certification Programme. Under this initiative, schools will be certified as gold, silver, and bronze based on their performance. We will develop assessments for students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 in schools that meet the qualifying criteria.


Assessing Accomplished Teaching With Reliability And Validity: The Acer Portfolio Project, Lawrence Ingvarson Aug 2018

Assessing Accomplished Teaching With Reliability And Validity: The Acer Portfolio Project, Lawrence Ingvarson

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

We know that good teachers are worth their weight in gold. But if good teaching is to be truly valued, the teaching profession must be able to demonstrate that it can evaluate itself in ways that are reliable, valid and fair. This capacity is central to any profession. It is also central to lifting the status of teaching, rewarding accomplished teaching and enabling teaching to complete with other professions for our ablest graduates. Recent OECD reports emphasise the necessity of strengthening the teaching profession, which depends upon widespread use of evidence-based teaching practices. Building the capacity for evaluation is the …


Professional Certification For Accomplished Principals: Directions For Australia, Lawrence Ingvarson Feb 2014

Professional Certification For Accomplished Principals: Directions For Australia, Lawrence Ingvarson

Educational leadership

This review was commissioned by Principals Australia Institute. Its purpose is twofold: to review approaches to assessing and evaluating principals internationally; and, to draw on this review in developing recommendations for building a rigorous and beneficial professional certification system for accomplished principals in Australia. There is widespread agreement that our society needs to place greater value on the important and complex work of teachers and principals (Productivity Commission 2012). Whether that happens will depend in large part on our capacity to develop standards for successful practice and rigorous methods for assessing those who meet them. Our ability to recognise and …


Review Of National And International Practice In Voluntary Certification For Principals, Brian Caldwell Sep 2013

Review Of National And International Practice In Voluntary Certification For Principals, Brian Caldwell

Educational leadership

The purpose of the project was to undertake and report on a global scan of schemes for the voluntary certification of school leaders that have been established by professional associations and institutions. The focus was on the certification of principals or those aspiring to the principalship. A distinction was made between certification that is awarded by a government or government agency, and certification that is awarded by an independent professional body. Five national and one state (US) voluntary principal certification programs were identified in the scan. Ten critical issues to be addressed in a scheme for voluntary certification were drawn …


Quality Educational Leadership Through Principal Certification: A Consultation Paper Seeking Input On School Principal Certification To Recognise And Enhance Educational Leadership In Australian Schools, Paul Kilvert Sep 2013

Quality Educational Leadership Through Principal Certification: A Consultation Paper Seeking Input On School Principal Certification To Recognise And Enhance Educational Leadership In Australian Schools, Paul Kilvert

Educational leadership

This consultation paper seeking input on school principal certification to recognise and enhance educational leadership in Australian schools was used as the basis for a series of forums with principals in each Australian state and territory to clarify and develop the Australian Principal Certification Program.