Links - Organization and Body

The Standards Site
An important website, presenting numerous categories of information for assessment. It includes research papers, strategies for education improvement, advice to promote community cohesion within schools, etc. It provides rich resources for teachers and researchers.

The Assessment Reform Group
The Assessment Reform Group seeks to ensure that assessment policy and practice at all levels takes account of relevant research evidence. With the support of policy-makers in government and its agencies, this site provides rich information about assessment for teachers, teacher organizations, local au thority staffs, and researchers.

National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
This site works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.

International Association for Educational Assessment
IAEA has a broad purpose of assisting educational agencies in the development and appropriate application of educational assessment techniques to improve the quality of education. This site provides rich information about assessment with an international perspective.

Centre for Formative Assessment Studies (CFAS)
The Centre for Formative Assessment Studies (CFAS) is a well-established research unit in England in the areas of education and social science evaluations. The Centre has been involved in a range of national and international research encompassing developments in teaching, learning and assessment, the monitoring of curriculum implementation and evaluations of organisations and programmes. It has extensive experience at international and national levels in all aspects of the evaluation and development of curriculum and assessment research.

Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment
The assoication aimed at promoting pupil achievement through the processes of effective assessment, recording and reporting and to provide a forum for the exchange of views, information and experience related to all aspects of assessments.

Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority
The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) is an independent, self-financing statutory body. Its site includes information about Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) and the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKALE), and over 200 examinations leading to academic, professional or practical qualifications, on behalf of nearly 130 overseas examining bodies and local professional bodies. This is helpful to understand recent developments in Hong Kong ’s examination and assessment systems.

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
The Assessment Program at NWREL is dedicated to providing the research, services and products for teachers and schools nationally and world-wide. Its goal is to support teachers in any way that is useful to help students learn how powerful and helpful on-going and continuous assessment can be in their lives as students and members of a larger community.

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE)
PARE is an on-line journal which provides education professionals access to refereed articles that have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level. It aims to provide scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education, and to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments. The target audience ranges from teachers, administrators, and assessment personnel to researchers, policy makers, parents, and students.

Phoenix Institute and Acccountability & Assessment Forum
The Assessment and Accountability Forum is a quarterly journal dedicated to innovation and quality management in adult-centered and corporate focused higher education. This site contains a large number of articles archived since 1991 and most of them can be read electronically.