EDMED7067 Educational Assessment
This course considers a range of assessment practices, their purposes, and the issues surrounding them in several educational contexts. Students will learn about formative, summative, and ongoing assessment, and concepts such as assessment of/for/as learning. Assessment validity, reliability, and accountability are examined in a range of contemporary educational assessments. Students will understand psychometric approaches to assessment, and build their data literacy. The course explores the relationship between testing, the individual and the community, and the role of assessment in relation to social justice.
Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).
2025 contribution amount* $578
2025 grandfathered contribution amount^ $578