Purpose:
The purpose of the Assessment and Measurement SIG is to provide a forum where AARE members with an interest in educational assessment and measurement can meet to discuss relevant research, theory and its implications for classroom practice, and assessment policy.
Research interests:
Qualitative and quantitative approaches across all phases of education to:
- classroom assessment, and
- standardised assessment in education.
This includes:
- approaches to formative and summative assessment including the relationship between assessment and learning;
- feedback;
- self- and peer assessment;
- the impact of assessment on student learning;
- the design of assessments;
- the use of critieria and standards;
- standards-setting procedures;
- moderation practices;
- the use of data;
- measures of validity, reliability and fairness of assessment;
- reporting practices; and
- the role and relationship of teachers, students and parents in assessment practices.