ACER | Research - Assessment and Reporting

Assessment and Reporting

ACER conducts research into the assessment and reporting of a wide range of educational outcomes (academic and social). This work, undertaken for clients nationally and internationally and in support of ACER's own tests and assessment programs, includes the refinement of test constructs; studies of test validity and reliability; assessment methods and formats; psychometric analyses of test data; and methods for item banking, online test delivery and reporting.

Selected projects in this area

Project Name	Funding	Director
Evaluation of literacy and numeracy diagnostic tools currently in use in Australian schools	DEEWR	Margaret Forster
Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)	OECD	Juliette Mendelovits
Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment -NZ	Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand	Juliette Mendelovits
Brunei Consultancy NSSCME 2008 and 2010	Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam	Andrew Stephanou Prue Anderson
PATScience	ACER Press	Ron Martin
MathOnline Interview	DEECD	Ray Peck
Assessment Items for the WA Monitoring Standards in Education	DET WA	Ron Martin
Car Driver Learner Permit Knowledge Test	VicRoads	Mark Butler