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EAA officers deliver professional development to teachers and educational professionals on a range of topics, including:

• Grammar workshops
• Criterion-referenced assessment workshops
• Item-writing workshops
• Data analysis courses
• Using data to improve student achievement in-services

Professional development may be delivered by EAA’s trained officers in schools or on-site at our Rosebery premises. Materials and copies of powerpoint presentations are provided.
EAA’s homepage ‘Spotlight’ provides regular updates about forthcoming professional development opportunities.

For further information about EAA’s professional development opportunities, please contact our Customer Service Office on phone (02) 8344 1010 or email PD@eaa.unsw.edu.au

Total Assessment Conference - Thursday 23 and Friday 24 October

Register online for our Conference October 23-24 Explore the power of diagnostic analysis and comparative assessment for reporting and planning.

EAA is an accredited NSW Institute of Teachers professional development provider.

Total Assessment Conference and Workshops - June 2-5

Download PDF versions of the conference and workshop presentations.

• International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) - Why enter full cohorts? - Dr Peter Knapp, Director
• Online Reporting - Robert Schulz, Deputy Director
• Weighing the Pig – David Shepherd, Principal and Jan McClure, Deputy Principal – Ballarat and Clarendon College, Victoria
• Innovations in Online Testing - Nathaniel Lewis, EAA Data Analysis Manager
  and Kevin Roberson, P-6 Numeracy Coordinator, Narre Warren College
  
• Developing better assessment tasks - Penny Hutton, Assessment Manager
• Using ICAS - General Achievement Tests to place students - Linda Gillies, Head of Special Projects
• Australian Financial Literacy Assessment – Linking online assessment & curriculum resources - Meg Madden, AFLA Project Officer
• The Write Criteria –criterion-referenced assessment of Writing -Janelle Ho, Acting Senior Head of Literacy
• Testing English – it’s all in the text - Penny Hutton, Assessment Manager
• Predicting pupil patterns in Mathematics - Nick Connolly, Head of Mathematics
• ICAS Science – Deconstructing the data - Dr Sofia Kesidou, Head of Science
• Testing students in the early years of schooling - Penny Hutton, Assessment Manager
• Frameworks for teaching and testing - Kerry Tremaine, Head of Computer Skills
• Demystifying the common scale - Nathaniel Lewis, EAA Data Analysis Manager
• International considerations in test development - Dr Teo Saw-Choo, Head of International

Delegates at the Total Assessment Workshop, June 2008.

EAA Director, Peter Knapp leads discussion at the Total Assessment Workshop, June 2008