1. Building the Curriculum 5: Quality Assuring Assessment

2. Welcome
Peter Tymms

3. Outline The day Assessment for excellence CEM Purposes Choices Layers
Traps
CEM

4. Purposes Informal Official As part of life As part of teaching
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

5. Choices: Assessment Domains
Cognitive
Affective
Physical
Behavioural

6. Choices: Criterion and Norm Referencing

7. Layers of Information
Authorities
Schools
Classes
Brain modules
Pupils

8. 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

9. 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

10. Thank you