BACKGROUND

Educational assessment is important for improving the quality of education. The result of assessments is valuable information for teachers in improving the quality of teaching-learning processes. Assessment can be carried for the purpose of learning, and can be as learning and of learning.  Assessment can be conducted as classroom assessment, school assessment, and national assessment. There are many research findings concerning the development of appropriate assessment methods that have an impact on the quality of teaching and learning  processes in the classroom and the quality of education that  could be expected to improve.     

Assessment can be used to describe students’ competencies as a result of  their study, their motivation, teachers’ competencies, and teachers’ motivation. Each school, region, even nation has a unique strategy in improving the student’s competency. The conference is inviting researchers who have done or will do research in educational assessment or evaluation. Since the methods for student assessment or student evaluation have much been developed, we are inviting experts in students’ assessment from all over the world, especially Australia and Hongkong.

Related to the global competition, the expected main advantage from assessment is to improve students’ performance. It   is certainly not easy to conduct assessment that can enhance students’ attitude, knowledge, and skill. Those reasons motivate us to conduct this conference, where experts will share their experience in the latest development of educational assessment, and participants of the conference will share their experiences about methods, impacts, and tools of assessment that can improve students’ performance.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

1. Assessment  for improving student performance: Prof. Geoff Master, Ph.D., Director of Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) (on confirm)
2. International assessment for improving classroom assessment: Prof. Frederick Leung, Ph.D., University of Hongkong.
3. Educational quality assurance for improving  quality of education: Bahrul Hayat, Ph.D., Chairman of HEPI.

SUB-THEMES

The sub-themes of the conference are as follows:

1. Assessment methods for improving  student’s performance.
2. Assessment for higher order thinking.
3. The use of psychometric method for majoring student’s competence.
4. Application of information technology (IT) in school assessment, regional assessment, and national assessment.
5. Program evaluation for improving quality of education.

DATE AND VENUE

REGISTRATION AND FEES

1. Contact person:

2. Participation Fee (transport and accomodation not included): ^*)

1. General participants (lecturers, teachers, education practitioners, students): IDR 500,000
2. Paper presenters: IDR 750,000
3. Excursion to Kraton/Borobudur Temple/ Kaliurang: IDR 200,000 (Optional)

FACILITIES

• Conference kits
• Certificate
• Proceeding (CD) for interested participants
• Snack and meal

CALL FOR PAPERS

The committee invites participants to present their ideas or research results in the conference. Individual presentation is about 30 minutes, comprising 20 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for discussion. Full papers must comply with  the following requirements:

1. The paper deals with the result or review of education assessment and evaluation.
2. The paper is written on A4 paper, having 4-3-4-3 margin, in MS Word format, using Font type Arial 12 pt, and 1.5 spacing.
3. The paper is written in English not exceeding 12 pages and consisting of:
   
   1. title, containing the research title, name and address of institution, and email address of the writer;
   2. 250-word abstract, typed in single-line spacing in one paragraph containing the objective, method, and result of the research and keywords of no longer than one line;
   3. introduction, containing the background, research problem, objectives, and significance of research;
   4. research method, containing the approach used, population and sample, instrument, source of data, and technique of data analysis;
   5. research findings and discussions;
   6. conclusions and suggestions;
   7. references.

ACCOMPANYING PAPERS

Those interested in presenting their research reports or review of research results should pay attention to important dates of abstract and full-paper submission procedure: