Second announcement and call for proposals for the international
research
conference:
'Learning Communities and Assessment Cultures: Connecting Research with
Practice'
The conference will be of interest to educational practitioners and
researchers in compulsory and post-compulsory education (including
higher
education, further education, adult and lifelong learning).
Venue: Longhirst Hall, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK
Dates: 28-30 August 2002
Plus:
27 August - Pre-conference seminar on portfolio assessment (see Special
Interest Groups at:
www.earli.eu.org)
The Conference is jointly organised by the EARLI Special Interest Group
for
Assessment and Evaluation and the School of Education, University of
Northumbria.
Key themes:
Assessment for Learning,
Evaluating Assessment Practices
Changing Assessment in Practice.
Proposals are welcome in the following areas:
Formative assessment, Self peer and co-assessment;
Performance assessment, Portfolio assessment;
Quality and validity, Inclusive assessment:
Implementation strategies;
Conceptions of learning and assessment, Politics and ideology of
assessment;
E-learning and e-assessment,
Large-scale testing & assessment.
The DEADLINE for submission of proposals is 30 March 2002.
Full details are available at:
www.northumbria.ac.uk/assessment2002
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Gary Poole, Ph.D., Director
University of British Columbia
Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth
6326 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA V6T 1Z2
Telephone: (604) 822-9164 FAX (604) 822-9826
Web Site:
http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/facdev
President, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/stlhe/