Teaching & learning

As Australia faces a secondary teacher shortage, high schools are seeking outside help to deliver HSC exams in a reliable and COVID-safe...

For an online test to be valid, reliable and fair it requires high quality test items that are fully translated and localised to meet the needs of...

In this brief guide, we clarify the meaning of ‘high-stakes assessment’ and its invaluable cousin, ‘low-stakes assessment’. What makes a...

Hannah Jamieson, national education advisor for headspace Schools, knows only too well how easy it is for teachers to burn out by the time they reach...

The end-of-year school break is likely to be the first taste of respite that teachers will get from the strain of this past year's challenges. We...

Just as the beauty of a tapestry is the result of tying together loose threads, so too, the online assessment of a learner relies upon a series of...

Parents are an integral part of the education journey, and parent-teacher night is a key touchpoint to ask specific questions and hear feedback about...

After more challenging months of uncertainty and lockdowns for our teacher colleagues as well as parents, schools are open once more, and it seems...

It's easy to assume the term ‘PISA for Schools’ refers to the three-yearly PISA test which runs in more than 80 OECD countries and whose results...

Whether you're a teacher or parent, it’s highly likely that you’ve come across various terminology for the types of tests your child sits at...

The US Federal Government support package released to districts and schools is intended to be uniformly applied in addressing students’ academic,...

The true impact of COVID-19 and US school closures on K-12 learning remains to be seen, making it challenging for any one school to gauge its...

The bedrock of an individualised approach to teaching is a self-aware school ecosystem – one in which schools have a clear, proportional and global...

The OECD has partnered with Janison to roll out PISA for Schools across the globe – why, why us and why now? These questions are answered by...

These days, most institutions are delivering at least a portion of their tests online. An online assessment platform can provide time, effort, cost...

There are unpleasant experiences in life in which we have little choice but to participate – not least attending a exam which may have implications...

The lockdown has accelerated educators’ and students’ interactions with online learning and assessment technologies. So, what happens next? New...

Digital testing has opened more elicitation techniques than ever to test authors. Given that question types have their inherent strengths and...