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Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, Principles And Challenges, Geoff N. Masters
Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, Principles And Challenges, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
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 principles …
Put Assessment Reform In The Must-Do Basket, Geoff Masters
Put Assessment Reform In The Must-Do Basket, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The reform of assessment thinking and practice has the potential to lead and drive improvements in teaching and learning, but assessment reform is likely to be difficult without broader educational reforms. For example, assessment to establish where individuals are in their learning is largely pointless if teachers intend to deliver exactly the same content to all students in a class regardless of their current levels of achievement.