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Preparing assessment-capable teachers: What should preservice teachers know and be able to do?

Author(s): Alison Gilmore, Bronwen Cowie, Mary Hill
In a world where schools are accountable for ensuring that all of their students are academically well prepared to enter “the knowledge society”, using assessment in the service of learning is a...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

NEMP experiences: Teachers talk about lessons learned and changes to their assessment practices

Author(s): Alison Gilmore
Each year, the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) engages teachers to work intensively with children administering a wide range of assessment tasks, and to mark children’s recorded...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Exercising Teachers’ Choice of NEMP Tasks: Bringing assessment resources into the classroom

Author(s): Alison Gilmore
A group of teachers examined over 400 assessment tasks in the NEMP probe study reports from 1995 to 2000. From mapping each task onto the curriculum, the teachers were able to identify 23 tasks which...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Commentary: Towards defining, assessing and reporting against national standards for literacy and numeracy in New Zealand

Author(s): Alison Gilmore, Charles Darr
The New Zealand government’s Crusade for Literacy and Numeracy stipulates that national standards will be set in literacy and numeracy; that every primary and intermediate student will be assessed...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Editorial

Author(s): Alison Gilmore
When I was corresponding with one of the authors in this issue, Emeritus Professor James Popham, I received an advertisement for his latest book in a document called “Popham eflyer”. As...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon AM2010_2_001.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Editorial

Author(s): Alison Gilmore
This third issue of Assessment Matters addresses a number of topics that span the complexity and nature of assessment as it is understood and practised in a range of educational settings, in New...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon AM2011_3_001.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Preparing primary and early childhood initial teacher education students to use assessment in teaching

This was a 3-year project that followed a cohort of initial teacher education (ITE) students from four universities over their 3-year programme. The project, “Learning to Become ‘Assessment...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Early childhood initial teacher education students’ learning about assessment

This article examines conceptions of assessment in early childhood initial teacher education (ITE) students’ learning and relative to assessment policy and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand...
| Year published: 2015 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article

Editorial

Author(s): Alison Gilmore
Welcome to the first issue of Assessment Matters. This new journal provides a forum for discussing, debating and communicating developments and advances in matters relating to assessment in the field...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon AM2009_1_001.pdf | Content type: Assessment Matters article