Select Papers from EdMeas23: Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium 2023

A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 April 2024) | Viewed by 845

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Senior Lecturer in Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: higher education; measurement and analytics; student motivation

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: educational assessment; curriculum evaluation; data literacy

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Associate Professor, Research Methodology, Educational Assessment & Evaluation, Centre for Educational Measurement & Assessment, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: educational systems: administration, management and leadership; learning sciences; psychology of education; health and sport

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Director - Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) Faculty of Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: Rasch modelling; measurement models; educational assessment; test theory

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

The central purpose of the Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium (EdMeas) is to bring together people from a range of communities, settings, and traditions to share ideas and interact across boundaries, including the school sector, higher education sector, government, industry, and academia.

This edited collection of papers from EdMeas23 presents a snapshot of the latest research, policy analysis, and scholarly practice in educational measurement and assessment across an uncommon breadth of settings.

Measurement topics include school improvement, teaching quality, evaluation of school systems, large-scale assessments, test creation, race and educational measurement validity, and psychometrics. Assessment topics include the theory underlying assessment, feedback, formative assessment, automated assessment and AI, authentic assessment, collaborative/group assessment, learning analytics and assessment, equity in assessment, and policy.

Timeline

  • 1 June 2023—Symposium.
  • 1 August 2023—Expression of interest (EOI) submission deadline.
  • 1 September 2023—EOI notification of acceptance/invitation to submit full papers.
  • 6 February—Submission of full papers through this website.

Dr. Kathryn Bartimote
Dr. Sofia Kesidou
Dr. Rachel Wilson
Prof. Dr. Jim Tognolini
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Keywords

  • assessment policy
  • school improvement
  • measuring 21st century skills
  • evaluating impact
  • teacher data literacy
  • leading assessment
  • assessment in Australia
  • international large-scale assessments in education
  • measuring what we value in education
  • inclusive assessment for students with disabilities
  • assessment and curriculum reform

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Article
Exploring Education as a Complex System: Computational Educational Research with Multi-Level Agent-Based Modeling
by John Vulic, Michael J. Jacobson and James A. Levin
Educ. Sci. 2024, 14(5), 551; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050551 - 20 May 2024
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Our study employs multi-level agent-based modeling and computational techniques to explore education as a complex system. With an underlying focus that education should be underpinned by a scientific understanding of student learning, we created computational models that simulated learning dynamics in classrooms, integrating [...] Read more.
Our study employs multi-level agent-based modeling and computational techniques to explore education as a complex system. With an underlying focus that education should be underpinned by a scientific understanding of student learning, we created computational models that simulated learning dynamics in classrooms, integrating both quantitative and qualitative insights. Through these models, we conducted experiments aligned with real classroom data to address key questions, such as “How can we effectively support the academic progress of underperforming students, who are disproportionately from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds, to close their multi-year achievement gap in mathematics?” Our study analyzes various instructional approaches for mathematical learning, and our findings highlight the potential effectiveness of Productive Failure as an instructional approach. Considerations of the broader applicability of computational methods in advancing educational research are also provided. Full article
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