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
Grandfathered contribution amount - if you are a continuing student, who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.
* For Clinical Psychology & Professional Pathways bands the unit fee amount is determined by accredited courses. Students in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work accredited courses should refer to the information below.
