CIEA Webinar - Reimagining Educational Assessment

Webinar focus

Educational assessment is widely understood as the process of establishing how well pupils have learnt what they have been taught. Assessments at the end of teaching are used to evaluate pupil success, usually conveyed as a mark, percentage or grade. Assessments during teaching are used to identify gaps in learning and to intervene and reteach. Whether summative or formative, most educational assessments are made in relation to a body of taught content.

An alternative is to use assessment to establish and understand the points individuals have reached in their long-term (usually multi-year) progress in an area of learning. This means understanding what they know, understand and can do at the time of assessment, regardless of their age or grade. Assessments for this purpose can be undertaken at the end of teaching, during teaching, or without reference to a taught course at all. The purpose is to establish, in an absolute sense, individuals’ levels of proficiency in an area of learning. This is important because pupils of the same age/grade have widely differing levels of attainment, often equivalent to five or six years of learning.

Assessment information of this kind can be used to identify best next steps for an individual’s learning, to set realistic but challenging learning targets, and to monitor the progress (or growth) an individual makes over time—something not possible with traditional reports such as percentages and A-to-E grades. However, this alternative depends on well-constructed frames of reference that describe and illustrate the long-term development of proficiency against which individual progress can be mapped and monitored.

Panellists

We are delighted to welcome Professor Geoff Masters, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), who will present his thoughts on the future of educational assessment.

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Priority booking for CIEA members is available until Monday 30th September

Further information

The webinar will be recorded. All participants will be able to ask questions.

We hope you will be able to join us.