Assessment Research Centre

The Assessment Research Centre (ARC) is a research centre based in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, at the University of Melbourne.[1] The Centre was founded in 1989 by Professor Patrick Griffin.[2][3] The Centre is active in educational measurement and evaluation projects locally,[4][5] nationally[6] and internationally.[7]

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Mission

The Centre focuses on improving assessment and reporting through a four-step process of research, publication, development and training. These processes provide the framework for strategic planning by the Centre and guide the Centre's core business as well as its link to the University's mission. Research that leads to change, strategically affects change, or sets up the basis for change and improvement in assessment, forms the focus of the Centre's work.[8]

  • Research
The Centre focuses on research either in or using assessment. All activities and projects have a research focus and emphasise assessment or evaluation models based on assessment. The Centre's research program is its basic tool for educational change. Assessment research is regarded as a way of testing ideas, of checking the theoretical and practical nature of theories, new approaches and ideas.
  • Publications
Through publishing the research outcomes in a variety of media to cater for a wide variety of audiences, the Centre is able to disseminate its ideas and procedures to assess the change process.
  • Development
The development strategies employed by the Centre translate research outcomes into materials that practitioners can evaluate and use. The end user is one who can judge the practicality of research outcomes and their application potential. This is the basis of the change and improvement practices. Therefore, the development of materials is also given priority in each project.
  • Training
Each project at the development stage incorporates plans for a series of seminars, workshops, publications and other means of dissemination. The Centre conducts a series of short course training programs in assessment research and related fields. Graduate supervision and teaching of award and non-award courses complements the Centre’s research program by having graduates actively participating in components of the Centre’s research agenda.

Projects
  • The ARC previously worked on evaluating the Regional Network system in the Victorian education system.[5]
  • The ARC currently operates an online testing facility, The Assessment Research Centre Online Testing System (ARCOTS)[9]
  • The ARC is involved in an ongoing Literacy Assessment Project.[10][11]

Completed Projects

The ARC has completed a large number of projects, including:

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References
  1. "Research Centres at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne". Archived from the original on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  2. "'Find an expert' - Professor Patrick Griffin".
  3. "Who's Who - Professor Patrick Griffin". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  4. "Cultural change boosts reading skills, The Age, 21 June 2010".
  5. "Schools ruled by the power of two, The Age, 12 February, 2011".
  6. "Winter 2005 - The Assessment Agenda - EQA". Archived from the original on 2011-02-24.
  7. "ATC21S Project - Our Global Team". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  8. Assessment Research Centre. (2010). 2007/2008 Annual Report. Melbourne: Assessment Research Centre
  9. "Assessment Research Centre Online Testing System (ARCOTS)". Archived from the original on 2011-02-10.
  10. "Literacy Assessment Project". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25.
  11. "Reading Between the Lines. Curriculum Leadership Journal, 6: 25". Archived from the original on 2011-03-05.
  12. "Problem Solving ARC Linkage". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  13. Roberts, C., Zoanetti, N., & Rothnie, I. (2009). Validating a multiple mini-interview question bank assessing entry-level reasoning skills in candidates for graduate-entry medicine and dentistry programmes. Medical Education, 43, 350-359.
  14. "Vietnam Major Data Analysis Project". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  15. "Leadership Development Framework Project". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  16. "Vietnamese Study Tour". Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  17. "Determinants of Literacy and Numeracy Project". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  18. "AQFAB Project". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  19. DETYA, Indigenous Education Branch Publications Raban, B., Griffin, P. and Coates, H. (2000). Pre School Profile. DETYA Indigenous Education Branch: Canberra.
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