Theme
Theme
The theme of the 2009 IAEA Conference is Assessment for a Creative World.
Creative endeavour pervades all aspects of life and work. Repetitive work is being replaced by machines. Workers are expected increasingly to devise solutions to problems that are non-standard and non-replicated; they must integrate and synthesise information from a range of contexts and design solutions to fit; imagination, invention and adaptation are needed and valued.
All areas of learning need to develop students to be creative thinkers and collaborative problem solvers. This includes, for example, mathematics, science, engineering and computing, not just the creative and performing arts. The conference will consider how assessment can facilitate, monitor and report student development of creative thinking and skills, across the curriculum, along with other aspects of learning.
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Expectations and standards - Assessing worthwhile learning for a creative world
- Assessing imagination, invention and problem solving
- Assessing specific and generic learning outcomes
- Setting and assessing standards and benchmarks
- Assessing non-academic learning and skills
- Assessing situated learning and authentic achievement
| Reconciling the needs of individual, state and world - Reconciling formative and summative assessment
- Personalising versus standardising assessment
- School-based assessment: teachers as assessors
- Moderation processes for consistent assessor judgments
- Quality assurance and accountability in assessment
- Implications of world globalisation for assessment
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Challenges for school assessment - Fairness, equity and opportunity
- Accommodating multicultural diversity
- Alternative and innovative assessment practices
- Vocational and workplace assessment
- Impacts and implications of information technology
- Recording and reporting student progress over time
| Uses and effects of assessment - Diagnostic assessment for improving learning
- Using assessment for school improvement
- Accreditation and certification issues
- Evaluating teacher effectiveness
- Selection for work and further education
- Social and economic costs and benefits of assessment
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