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This was presented in August 2016 to the EARLI SIG 1 Assessment and Evaluation Summer School in Munich. It provides an introduction to CFA and SEM techniques. It presumes understanding of exploratory factor analysis and multivariate statistical techniques. It extends basic CFA into SEM and multigroup invariance testing. It illustrates procedures and...

This is a paper presented at the September 2016 Research and Innovation in Classroom Assessment conference held in Brisbane, Australia. Program details at http://www.ricaconference.com.au/program

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 a brief provocation given to the Faculty of Education and Social Work concerning the design of assessments that could be used in future work.

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...

A guest lecture given to the TeachFirst 2017 cohort at the University of Auckland. This is focused on the design and use of standardised tests to inform teachers' curriculum and pedagogical practices. The focus is primarily on the use of the asTTle (assessment tools for teaching and learning) test system.

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:...

A provocation to the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, November, 2016. This presentation outlines key issues that need to be considered in potentially redesigning the assessment components of courses. It focuses on decisions around curriculum alignment, diversity of data collection, and establishing validity.

This is a staff development workshop conducted at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Presentation details are: Brown, G. T. L. (2013, February 10). Keys to Successful Student Outcomes Assessments. Keynote presentation to the 2nd Annual Forum for University Teaching: Learning Outcomes Assessment, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA....

This is a staff development workshop given at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February 2013. Goals for the workshop included:–develop an understanding of the principles of validity, reliability, and fairness as they apply to the design of multiple assessment tasks –learn to conduct simple statistical procedures for verifying reliability of...

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.