TY - Report AU - Geoff Masters PY - 2013 T1 - Reforming educational assessment: imperatives, principles and challenges PB - Australian Council for Educational Research DO - https://doi.org/APO-33291 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33291 AB - This report reviews research into assessment, especially in schools, analyses the pivotal role of assessment in learning and argues for its reconceptualisation by practitioners and policy makers to better support learning. Section 1 outlines some current pressures for assessment reform, introduces the concept of a learning assessment system designed to establish where learners are in their progress within an empirically mapped domain of learning, and sketches a set of design principles for such a system. ER -