Assessment

ACER has been investigating how effective parents, teachers and students consider report cards to be, and the results reveal room for improvement.

Dr Urip Purwono, Adviser to ACER Indonesia, recently discussed Indonesia’s University Entrance Test in an interview with Teacher.

A programmatic model of assessment can provide a more complete understanding of trainees’ knowledge and skills, but key aspects of the approach are often misunderstood.

ACER works with the Scottish Government, in partnership with Twig and SCHOLAR, to develop and deliver assessments of literacy and numeracy learning progress. Since 2017, more than one million assessments have been completed by learners throughout Scotland.

Dan Cloney and Kellie Picker explore practical literacy activity ideas designed to build children’s oral language skills.

Dr Catherine McClellan, ACER's Director of Assessment and Psychometric Research, will visit Indonesia to speak at a number of events in Jakarta from 23-25 September 2019.