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This is the 2016 November 17 Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Prof. Gavin Brown at the Faculty of Education and Social Work in the University of Auckland.ABSTRACTTesting and examination have important consequences for high quality performance, such as graduation, promotion, certification, scholarship, and others. Assessments are also assumed to be...

This is an invited lecture presented in September 2016 to the Dept. of Applied Educational Sciences, Umea University in Sweden.

This is a MOOC course on Coursera based on our own teaching of undergraduate assessment courses at the University of Auckland. Its redevelopment as a MOOC was funded by the Commonwealth Education Trust for their program Foundations of Teaching & Learning. The MOOC involves panels of Maori-medium teachers. Rachel Williams (now Dr Williams at the...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage.Please note demographic items differ from secondary school questionnaire. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006). Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: Validation of an abridged instrument. Psychological Reports, 99(1), 166-170. doi: 10.2466/pr0.99.1.166-170

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The full 50 item questionnaire was administered in 2007 for secondary schools, the abridged data information came from this administration. Please note demographic items differ from primary school questionnaire. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2011). Teachers' conceptions of assessment:...

This codebook/data dictionary provides users of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory details of the structure of the data files used to analyse the New Zealand data. This codebook needs to be read in conjunction with the following complementary files: 1. The Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Questionnaire or Inventory a. Long with 50 items b....

Survey instrument for self-administered usage.  The item questionnaire was administered in 2003 for students.  Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., & Hirschfield, G. H. (2007). Students' Conceptions of Assessment and Mathematics: Self-Regulation Raises Achievement. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 7, 63-74.

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2004 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2008). Students’ conceptions of assessment: Links to outcomes. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 15(1), 3-17. doi:10.1080/09695940701876003...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2005 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2005). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #4. Auckland: University of Auckland.DOI:...

Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2006 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006, September). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment: A Survey of Four Schools. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #5. Auckland, NZ: University of...

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...

This codebook or data dictionary provides users of the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment Inventory details of the structure of the data files used to analyse the New Zealand data. This codebook needs to be read in conjunction with complementary files specified within the document.

This document provides the final retained items in survey questionnaire format with a marking key to show how items aggregate into the factors reported in the 2012 Teaching and Teacher Education report.

This is the full set of items used in the MTAP Teacher Conceptions of Feedback study and published in 2012.

Lecture given to the TeachFirst cohort on using New Zealand's diagnostic test systems to inform teaching.

This presentation was given at Umea University, Sweden in September 2017. It is based on a paper published in 2017 derived from Frank Walton's MEd thesis.Self-regulation of learning requires that students conceive of assessments as a means of reflecting upon and guiding their learning. The relationship of student beliefs about the importance, usefulness,...