Faculty of Education

The objective of the course is to develop your understanding of key principles of assessment and measurement.

You will also be able to apply these principles to develop effective tools and strategies to measure and evaluate students' performance.

Course outline

Areas of research include:

• conceptualising learning in any given domain as a developmental continuum
• applying principles of measurement to explicitly characterise developmental continua, and to understand the nature of student development
• translating measurement principles into practices that allow educators to collect and evaluate evidence of progress and growth
• clarifying key issues involved in ongoing debates on formative and summative assessment, criterion and norm referenced assessment, and other commonly used concepts
• benefits and limitations of using frameworks in order to assess student development, and the implications for teaching and learning

This course is suited to teachers at primary school, secondary school, college and university levels and currently is available only through face-to-face teaching.

The course by way of thesis and coursework consists of units to a total value of 72 points comprising three coursework units (18 points), and a thesis of 20,000 - 25,000 words (54 points):

• EDUC8631 Approaches to Research
• EDUC8636 Assessment and Measurement
• EDUC8637 Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC9720 (full-time) / EDUC9721 (part-time) Master's Thesis (54 points)

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Admission requirements

Applicants must meet the admission requirements, or equivalent as recognized by the Faculty:

A. A four-year Bachelor of Education; and
B. (i) two years professional experience in Education, or
    (ii) demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty;
OR
1. a degree requiring at least four years of full-time study; and
2. two years professional experience in Education, and
3. demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty;
OR
completion of three coursework units in an articulated graduate diploma of this Faculty with an overall mark of 65%, including a mark of at least 65% in EDUC8631 Approaches to Research.

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