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Dive into the realms of assessment for excellence, exploring purposes, choices, and layers of information to avoid common traps while ensuring quality education. Discover how CEM Official Certification can revolutionize accountability and resource allocation for 1 million+ students annually across the globe.
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Welcome Peter Tymms
Outline • The day • Assessment for excellence • Purposes • Choices • Layers • Traps • CEM
Official Certification Admission Selection Accountability Allocation of resources Research Monitoring Identification of special needs In preparation for teaching Feedback Assessment for learning Informal As part of life As part of teaching As part of being taught Purposes
Choices: Assessment Domains Cognitive Affective Physical Behavioural
Choices: Criterion and Norm Referencing Criterion Norm
Layers of Information Authorities Schools Classes Brain modules Pupils
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
CEM • 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 • With support