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Towards A Growth Mindset In Assessment, Geoff N. Masters
Towards A Growth Mindset In Assessment, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Specifying And Assessing Knowledge And Skills For Life, Geoff N. Masters
Specifying And Assessing Knowledge And Skills For Life, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
In my presentation to this year’s Research Conference I will be taking as my starting point the proposition that a fundamental purpose of schooling is to provide every student with knowledge and skills to equip them for life beyond school. While acknowledging that schooling has broader purposes, I will argue that there are some fundamental understandings and skills that all students should develop during their school years, and that every student should be expected to demonstrate an acceptable level of these skills and understandings by the time they leave school.
Setting And Measuring Performance Standards For Student Achievement : Australian Experience., Geoff Masters
Setting And Measuring Performance Standards For Student Achievement : Australian Experience., Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
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Reforming The Assessment Of Student Achievement In The Senior Secondary School, Geoff Masters, P Hill
Reforming The Assessment Of Student Achievement In The Senior Secondary School, Geoff Masters, P Hill
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The challenge that confronts agencies responsible for assessment and reporting in the senior secondary school is to extend systematic assessment procedures to broader range of learning outcomes than those currently assessed by public examination, to develop methods of reporting which are more descriptive of individual achievement and which provide a better basis for describing and maintaining standards, and to provide results which are sufficiently comparable across schools to enable fair comparisons of applicants for tertiary study. Some recent developments in assessment and reporting practice are considered with a view to identifying methods and approaches capable of satisfying this diverse set …