Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2007 for students. Version 5 and version 6 are identical items, however contain different analytic models. SCoA-V inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., Irving, S. E., Peterson, E. R., & Hirschfeld, G. H. (2009). Use of interactive–informal assessment practices: New Zealand secondary students' conceptions of assessment. Learning and Instruction, 19(2), 97-111. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.02.003Weekers, A. M., Brown, G. T. L., & Veldkamp, B. P. (2009). Analyzing the dimensionality of the Students' Conceptions of Assessment (SCoA) inventory. In D. M. McInerney, G. T. L. Brown & G. A. D. Liem (Eds.), Student perspectives on assessment: What students can tell us about assessment for learning. (pp. 133-157). Charlotte, NC US: Information Age Publishing.SCoA-IV inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., Peterson, E. R., & Irving, S. E. (2009).  Beliefs that make a difference: Adaptive and maladaptive self-regulation in students’ conceptions of assessment. In D. M. McInerney, G. T. L. Brown, & G. A. D. Liem (Eds.), Student Perspectives on Assessment: What Students can Tell us about Assessment for Learning (pp. 159-186). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.AlQassab, M. (2012). Differential item functioning according to subject motivation: Psychometric properties of the Student Conceptions of Assessment (unpublished master's thesis), The University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ.