ASSESSMENT 2004
BEYOND INTUITION

Main theme: Raising standards in formative and summative assessment

The conference will focus on aspects of formative and summative assessment, and particularly address the issue of raising standards of current assessment. The conference will offer a platform to discuss innovation beyond intuition, based on evidence from research and educational practice.

Research, educational practice and institutional policies emphasise the increasingly productive variety of modes of assessment. In many countries there is a fundamental redefinition of the purposes and targets of assessment. The conference will address a number of core questions:

How can different modes of assessment - including end-of-course and in-course - serve summative or formative purposes? How can summative and formative purposes be combined? In what ways do they conflict? Which standards are relevant for the various modes of assessment and are they valid for both formative and summative assessment purposes? Which evidence do we have of the standards of new modes of assessment? What role might students, teachers and external examiners play in the assessment process?

Venue: Solstrand Fjord Hotel

The hotel is beautifully situated by one of the fjords in Western Norway, near the village Os, 45 minutes drive from Bergen. It is the perfect setting for an international conference as well as for midsummer celebration.