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This is a translation of the Student Conceptions of Assessment inventory (version 6) into Chinese simplified script by Dr Manman Gao who was a PhD student at Hong Kong University at the time.

This presentation was recorded as a guest appearance for a course taught at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work. The course, EDUC735 ‘Researching Educational Settings’, is taught by Dr Mohamed Alansari. He funded a series of recordings on research methods of which this is one. Permission has been gained from him to link this...

This is a paper presented at the Nordic Testing and Assessment of Writing Symposium, Trondheim in September 2015. In it I argue that using teacher's actual curriculum level judgements makes more sense than adjusting those by the difficulty of the task being rated. This material was later published in a paper as:Parr, J. M., & Brown, G. T. L. (2015)....

This list contains the original C-TCoA items developed for the Teachers’ Conceptions and Practices of Assessment in Chinese Contexts project funded by the Hong Kong Institute of Education and conducted in conjunction with the South China Normal University. The grant holder was Prof Kerry Kennedy, HKIEd. The HKIEd team consisted of Drs. Gavin T L Brown,...

This survey aims to question school teachers in Chinese contexts about assessment. The questionnaire is developed by a team of researchers of Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The team included Dr Gavin Brown, Dr Sammy KF Hui, and Dr Flora MF Yu. The project was funded by the HKIEd.

These items were assembled into a questionnaire which was developed by Gavin T L Brown and Zhenlin Wang at the Hong Kong Institute of Education from 2010-2011. The items were developed from a focus group study (Brown & Wang, 2013; Wang & Brown, 2014), previous SCoA studies (Brown, 2011), and previous work on Chinese teachers’ conceptions of assessment...

This presentation was given at the 2018 EARLI SIG 1 Summer School in Finland Helsinki. It provides conceptual background information necessary to carry out classical test and item response theory analyses.

This is a presentation given 25 September 2019 at Umea University based on a paper written jointly by Gavin Brown and Hanna Eklof. The paper isBrown, G. T. L., & Eklöf, H. (2018). Swedish student perceptions of achievement practices: The role of intelligence. Intelligence, 69, 94-103. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2018.05.006An earlier version of the...

This is a discussion paper on what NewZealand can do to prevent family violence. Ittakes the position that family violence is asolvable problem. Family violence can beseen as largely a “symptom” of underlyingsocial and psychological issues, that areindeed multiple and complex, but areassociated with many of the drivers of othersocial concerns. In the end,...