Tuesday, 26 Mar 2019
This story in EducationHQ by ACER's Dr Anne-Marie Chase looks at how to capture hard-to-quantify skills.
Anyone working in educational assessment knows that some skills – whether or not a student can perform long division, how wide is their vocabulary – are easier to measure than others. How do we accurately capture degrees of creativity, for example, then fairly compare students, with each other and over time?
Writing in EducationHQ this week, ACER's Dr Anne-Marie Chase looks at Rasch Measurement, the model underpinning some of the world's most famous educational assessments, and its capacity to create meaningful measures.
Read more about the complexities of educational measurement in this piece by Professor Geoff Masters in Teacher.