assessment
SURF Innovation programme. Learning Analytics
Learning analytics is a relatively new phenomenon in education. It involves analysing the online behaviour of students within an electronic learning environment or a digital learning and working environment. Analysing the data can help higher education institutions to gain a better understanding of:
- students’ study behaviour;
- the quality of the educational resources used;
- how the digital learning and working environment is in fact used;
- the quality of test items;
- student progress.
ePIC 2012 - the 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference
Should everybody have an ePortfolio? How do ePortfolios contribute to the identity construction process? How do ePortfolios support the acquisition of 21st century skills? How do ePortfolios support lifelong learning, orientation and employability? How can we make ePortfolios fully interoperable? To find the answers to these questions, and more, join us at ePIC 2012, the 10th ePortfolio and Identity Conference.
The worldwide emergence of ePortfolios is an indicator of the need to review our approach to education and lifelong learning, at the same time demonstrating that it is possible to make learning and assessment more authentic and integrated. ePortfolios are at the source of a new generation of tools dedicated to valuing and celebrating the achievements of the individual, from nursery school to lifelong and life-wide learning. It is also a technology reinforcing the link between individual, organisational and community learning.
Over the last ten years, considerable effort has been invested in the development of ePortfolio technologies and practice. To further developments in this field, the main goal of the 10th international ePortfolio and Identity Conference is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices in:
- development of lifelong learner / professional / citizen identity;
- individual / community ePortfolios and identities;
- recognition of informal, lifelong and life-wide learning;
- accreditation of prior experience and learning (APEL), curriculum design and assessment;
- integrative learning and holistic development;
- continuing professional development and sustainable employability;
- development of distributed ‘communities of practice’, community and organisational development.
PlagiarismAdvice.org
We have been providing resources, training, advice and guidance to the education sector since 2002 to help address growing concerns about plagiarism, whilst promoting appropriate use of electronic sources of information. We work with a wide range of partners including The Higher Education Academy, JCQ, JISC, Ofqual and all UK unitary awarding bodies, along with schools, colleges and universities.
Proposal for a amending Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications
The proposal aims at simplifying rules for the mobility of professionals within the EU. It is essential to enabling professionals to start a new business or to find a job in another Member State requiring a specific qualification for a specific professional activity.
Key elements of the proposal are: The introduction of a European professional card, Better access to information on the recognition of professional qualifications, Updating minimum training requirements for doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, veterinary surgeons and architects, The introduction of an alert mechanism for health professionals benefiting from automatic recognition, The introduction of common training frameworks and common training tests and Mutual evaluation exercise on regulated professions
School Evaluation in the Flemish Community of Belgium 2011
This report for the Flemish Community of Belgium forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes (see Annex A for further details). The purpose of the Review is to explore how systems of evaluation and assessment can be used to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. The Review looks at the various components of assessment and evaluation frameworks that countries use with the objective of improving student outcomes. These include student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation and system evaluation.
Stiftung Warentest. Jugend + Schule
Kritischen Konsum kann man lernen. Und zwar am besten bevor die ersten großen Anschaffungen anstehen. Daher bietet die Stiftung Warentest zahlreiche Projekte, Veranstaltungen und Materialen für Jugendliche und Schulen an. Ziel ist der informierte und kritische Verbraucher – von Anfang an.
KINEO Free Guide: Doing assessment right
Too often we all encounter e-learning assessments that have not moved on much from the way we didn’t learn in school. Most e-learning tests are not an indicator of anything much other than short term memory recall, and we’ll all a little too long out of school to care much about that. In this guide we try to fix that.
Centre for Recording Achievement
The Centre for Recording Achievement is a network organisation, registered educational charity and Associate Partner of the Higher Education Academy (UK) . It’s membership is drawn from Local Authorities, Universities and Colleges and Professional Bodies. Through a programme of leadership, consultancy and support we seek to develop and demonstrate the value of ‘recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning and progression throughout the world of education, training and employment'.