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“This school really teaches you to talk to your teachers”: Students’ experience of different assessment cultures in three Icelandic upper secondary schools

Assuming that the quality of assessment for learning (AfL) is, to some extent, bound by the context of the assessment culture it thrives in, it becomes important to understand students’...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Data use in New Zealand secondary schools: Tracking, traffic lights, and triage

Secondary schools in New Zealand use assessment data for school self-evaluation, but little research has explored exactly how schools are using these data. This case study of selected high...
| Year published: 2020 | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

The challenges school administrators face in building assessment literacy

This study explored elementary and secondary school administrators’ perspectives on their attempts to build assessment literacy—an understanding of the principles and practices of sound assessment....
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Iranian university students’ conceptions of assessment: Using assessment to self-improve

Assessment practices in higher education focus on evaluating student learning. Institutions are now expected to provide improvement-oriented assessments that help students to improve their...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article