The Association for Educational Assessment – Europe

As I sit here now, waiting for the evaluation committee to review my PhD dissertation, I finally have the time to reflect on the journey I began five years ago.

Today assessment is moving from looking back to looking forward, aligned with new thinking about learning, pedagogy and children’s rights.

While students around the world received last summer their report cards and diplomas, in Switzerland, the Federation of Swiss Enterprises (Economiesuisse[1]) recently took a stand on the issue of grades, in a policy paper entitled “Debate on grades at school: we’ve lost our way…”.