Educational Assessment University College London (UCL)

This masters degree will:

• investigate the purposes and potential uses of formative and summative assessment and the relationship between the two
• critically review assessment of learning and assessment for learning
• deepen your understanding of the principal concepts of educational testing and their uses.

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

• join the only MA programme in London affiliated with the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA)
• become an automatic member of the CIEA
• benefit from fast track to chartered assessor status, on successful completion of the programme
• submit articles to Passed Papers, the CIEA journal.

Teachers, educational administrators, examinations officers, inspectors and education policy-makers who want to improve their skills and understanding about assessment issues and practices – assessment for learning, formative and summative assessment, educational measurement and research.

A good first degree.

• Assessment issues and practice
• Educational testing.

• Assessment for learning
• Education research.

By coursework assignments of up to 5,000 words, and a 20,000-word dissertation or a 10,000-word report.

Face-to-face sessions.

This is a recently established MA programme. Graduates of IOE studies in education and assessment are currently working as:

• staff at the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors
• head of department, deputy heads and headteachers in UK schools
• researchers and lecturers in universities.

• Assessment: Issues and Practice
• Investigating Research Into Schooling, Curriculum, Teaching And Learning

• Assessment for Learning
• Educational Testing

Entry requirements for this course

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