Systemwide Testing
About Systemwide Testing
The Systemwide Testing program undertakes research and development to support the monitoring of educational outcomes through system-wide and school-level testing programs. System-wide testing has become an important feature of the quality assurance frameworks of most Australian education systems and many systems overseas. Most system-wide assessment programs have common features and involve significant aspects of research and development. There are advantages in being able to build approaches developed in some systems so that they can be extended and applied in other systems. In parallel with system-wide initiatives, school-level testing programs provide information to enable schools and parents to monitor educational outcomes and to identify areas of special need. The activities of the Systemwide Testing program include the development of test materials for both these purposes, psychometric analysis and reporting, consulting, training and research.
Research Director: Mr Chris Freeman