Seminar: Key Trends in Educational Assessment: Change and Constants

Key Trends in Educational Assessment: Change and Constants
 

Speaker:     Professor Randy Bennett

Date:            November 17, 2025 (Monday)
Time:            16:00 – 17:30
Venue:         Room 408-410, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Chair:           Professor David Carless

Abstract:
Like the world around us, educational assessment is changing, in some ways quite rapidly. This talk covers three trends, two of which are related to AI. The trends are: Through-Year Assessment, Remote Testing, and Generative AI. But even with these changes, each of which is already appearing in operational testing programs, there are important constants - i.e., aspects of assessment that won’t change. Those constants are why we do assessment, assessment’s fundamental characteristics, and the social values that underlie it. The challenge is, in yin-yang fashion, to find the right balance between constants and change.
 

About the speaker: 
Randy Bennett is an independent consultant, recently retired from the ETS Research Institute in Princeton, NJ, USA, where he was the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation. His work concentrates on personalizing assessment, fairness, and equity.

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