Rejecting normal: Reversing the relationship between large-scale and classroom assessments

Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2, , Kwong Lee Dow Building

Presenters: Professor Mark Wilson

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Dean's Lecture presented by Mark Wilson, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, and Assessment Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

There is an imbalance between classroom assessment and large-scale assessment. While large-scale assessment generally guides what happens in the classroom, there is a legitimate place for classroom assessment alongside large-scale assessment - the two must be different, but they must support one another.

In his lecture, Professor Wilson will explain the current dominant relationship between the two and its problems. He will explore how an alternative useful relationship can be built up from the classroom level to support large-scale tests. By relating the measurement concept of a construct map, to the curriculum idea of a learning progression, construct maps effectively map progression in the classroom and allow key concepts to be selected for large-scale assessment.

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