1. Assessment and Evaluation

COORDINATORS

Eduardo Cascallar Assessment Group International, Belgium cascallar@msn.com	Denise Whitelock The Open University, United Kingdom d.m.whitelock@open.ac.uk

MISSION STATEMENT

Assessment and evaluation is one of the major challenges of Higher Education today. This is because its squares the desire for improved constructivist learning against the demand for institutional reliability and accountability. SIG 1 is interested in addressing the need for pedagogically driven models of assessment and electronic assessment that can allow students to take more control of their own learning and become more reflective. We are particularly interested in research from school to university level which include the following topics:

• Theoretical influences on assessment and evaluation
• Feedback in assessment
• Lifelong learning and assessment
• Socially responsible and effective e-assessment
• Co-constructing knowledge with collaborative assessment
• Web 2.0 and other new directions for e-assessment

ACTIVITIES

The next biennial SIG 1 meeting will take place at the Seminaris Seehotel in Potsdam (www.seminaris.de/potsdam). It is the Fourth Biennial EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference hosted by IQB, Humboldt University, Berlin.

27-29 August 2008

The theme will be "Challenging Assessment" and we invite you to submit an abstract. The system will open 1st October 2007, closes 15th February 2008 http://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/veranst/enac2008.

There will be opportunities to publish papers following the Conference in a number of journals related to the Conference themes.

For further details