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Set of notes on Principles of Test Development. Presented to Beteendevetenskapliga mätningar [Educational Measurement] group at Umeå Universitet, Sweden in September 2017

This is a lecture given at Umea University, Sweden in September 2017. It is based on the published study: Brown, G. T. L., & Abdulnabi, H. (2017). Evaluating the quality of higher education instructor-constructed multiple-choice tests: Impact on student grades. Frontiers in Education: Assessment, Testing, & Applied Measurement, 2(24).....

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,...

This is a Turkish translation created by Emine Vardar in 2010 of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment inventory (Version III Abridged). The source is Vardar, E. (2010). Sixth, seventh and eighth grade teachers’ conception of assessment. (unpublished masters thesis), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

This conference paper was presented at the 5th Education Psychology Forum. It arose from the collaboration between authors on the Measuring Teachers Assessment Practices project funded by the Faculty of Education Research Development Fund. Recommended citation is:Harnett, J., Harris, L. R., & Brown, G. T. L. (2012, November). Student feelings about...

This is an initial report of an unpublished study by Chenyan Tang, who was a PhD student supervised by me and Mary Hill at the University of Auckland. Chenyan asked workers in New Zealand and China to compare assessment at work in the design industry with assessment in education. This presentation provides the drawings that were given to her.

These pictures are part of Safeya Janahi's unpublished MA thesis at the University of Auckland supervised by me and Dr Pat Bullen. They were drawn by university students in Bahrain and by Bahraini students studying in New Zealand. Recommended citation is:Janahi, S. (2013). Bahraini university students’ conception of assessment within different educational...

This is the Turkish translation of the Student Conceptions of Assessment inventory v6. It was written by Senem ZAĠMOĞLU with permission from me for master's research. the source of the translation is in:Zaġmoğlu, S. (2013). Teachers’ and students’ conceptions of assessment in a university EFL preparatory school context. (unpublished masters thesis), Çağ...

This is a paper presented at the Education University of Hong Kong in December 2017. Published abstractAssessment in the form of testing and examination has long dominated educational practice with substantial consequences attached to high quality performance (e.g.,graduation,promotion,certification,scholarship,etc.). It has also been long presumed that...

This is the Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment (v3 full) created by Karin Roncete as part her Masters in Education degree at the University of Ouro Preto Brazil.The title of the thesis is: CONCEPÇÕES DE AVALIAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DO ENSINO BÁSICO: ADAPTAÇÃO E VALIDAÇÃO DO QUESTIONÁRIO TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF...

This is a lecture given in January 2018 to EdProf 701 at the University of Auckland. It describes the use of diagnostic standardised tests to inform educational improvement in NZ secondary schools.

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 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 is given to the Dept of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland on June 15, 2018.The traditional model of scoring MCQ tests assumes that all items have similar weight and that the sum of items correct is a good indicator of student achievement. However, this approach has been abandoned in standardised selection and...

This tutorial is created for presentation at the 2018 EARLI SIG 1 summer school in Helsinki, Finland (August 27-28). It provides step by step instruction in using R packages to analyse a dichotomously scored test within Classical Test and Item Response Theories. Packages used include 'psych' and 'ltm'.

This is a half-hour lecture given at the University of Auckland on Student Self-assessment to an audience of teachers.

This interview identifies the top 5 things that teachers should know about self-assessment.