Establishing comparability of Year 12 school-based assessments

Australian Journal of Education

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-47

  Hill, Peter W ^c   Brown, Tim ^a   Rowe, Kenneth J ^c   Turner, Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Faculty of Health Engineering and Science   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Achievement tests; Comparative testing; Moderation; School based assessment; Student certification; Year 12

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347703504     PISSN: 00049441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000494419704100103     Document Type: Article

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