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Assessment Moderation: Is It Fit For Purpose?, Lenore Adie
Assessment Moderation: Is It Fit For Purpose?, Lenore Adie
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This presentation outlines the different practices and purposes of assessment moderation and analyses the benefits and issues of these. Two projects are presented; each seeks to improve teacher judgement. Both attempt to redefine what we mean by moderation and how moderation can be conducted to reach diverse and dispersed groups. The first draws on a current Australian Research Council project that is exploring the development of scaled exemplars, the use of commentaries of judgement decisions, and the use of digital platforms to support teachers grading student work. The second draws on the work of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) …
Acer Models Of Writing: Changing The Assessment Mindset, Juliette Mendelovits, Judy Nixon
Acer Models Of Writing: Changing The Assessment Mindset, Juliette Mendelovits, Judy Nixon
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This presentation outlines different models of writing assessment that have a proven track record in various programs delivered by ACER. These models include holistic scoring, and partial analytical scoring on a number of criteria. The writing prompts for these models assume extended pieces of writing. The presentation will also introduce a new and alternative model of writing assessment that ACER has implemented in several large-scale assessments. This model is built on shorter pieces of writing from each student, designed to give more accurate and diverse insights into students’ proficiency in writing in a range of text types, within the constraints …