Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Tools

Assessment and Reporting Conference 2005

The Assessment and Reporting Conference was held 21 October 2005 in Melbourne. It focused on using data to inform learning and teaching, enhancing the quality of school assessment and reporting practices and developing an assessment culture to improve student learning.

Presentations from the conference:

Dr Dahle Suggett - Deputy Secretary, Office of Learning and Teaching, DoE

Andreas Schleicher - Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate of Education in Paris, examined the use of assessment data by systems, schools and teachers and explained the recently released OECD data with particular reference to Australia.

Margaret Forster - Research Director, Assessment and Reporting, ACER, provided a keynote presentation which looked at how to use assessment and reporting processes to enrich learning and teaching experiences.

Phillip Knight - Principal and Ross Taylor, Leading teacher - Parkdale Secondary College

Raymond Yates - Principal, Monbulk Primary School

Lee-Ann Green - Assistant Principal, Kew Primary School

Robyn Rivett - Cluster Educator, Mt Waverley

Pauline Rice - Assistant Principal, Fitzroy High School