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Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, Principles And Challenges, Geoff N. Masters Mar 2013

Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, Principles And Challenges, Geoff N. Masters

Australian Education Review

AER 57 reviews research into assessment, especially in schools; it analyses the pivotal role of assessment in learning and argues for its reconceptualisation by practitioners and policy makers to better support learning. The genesis of this AER was the ACER Research Conference Assessment and Student Learning: Collecting, interpreting and using data to inform teaching, held in Perth in August 2009.

Section 1 outlines some current pressures for assessment reform, introduces the concept of a learning assessment system designed to establish where learners are in their progress within an empirically mapped domain of learning, and sketches a set of design …