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Building the Curriculum 5:
Quality Assuring
Assessment
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Welcome
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Outline
• The day
• Assessment for excellence
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Purposes
Choices
Layers
Traps
• CEM
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Purposes
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• Official
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Certification
Admission
Selection
Accountability
Allocation of resources
Research
Monitoring
Identification of special needs
In preparation for teaching
Feedback
Assessment for learning
• Informal
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– As part of life
– As part of teaching
– As part of being taught
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Choices: Assessment Domains
Cognitive
Affective
Physical
Behavioural
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Choices: Criterion and Norm Referencing
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Layers of Information
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Schools
Classes
Brain modules
Pupils
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Authorities
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Traps
• Relying entirely on teacher assessment
– Reliability? Comparability? Bias? Discrimination
• Believing that top down accountability raises
standards
– Failed south of the border
• Using only aggregate data
– Ecological falicy
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CEM
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1,000,000+ students each year
1000s schools
Ages 3 to 18+
Scotland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Hong
Kong, China, S. Africa
100s of international schools
Confidential and accurate
Translations into a dozen languages
Norm and criterion
Paper based and e-assessment
Cognitive, affective, physical and behavioural
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