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Annual Conference of Educational Research Center on

  Educational Measurement

March 27, 2010

Under the patronage of

H. E. Prof. Hassan Mneimneh

Minister of Education and Higher Education of Lebanon



Educational Research Center (ERC) will hold its annual conference on educational measurement on March 27, 2010, under the theme:

Electronic assessment platforms for meaningful learning

Educational Research Center (ERC) will hold its annual conference on educational measurement on March 27, 2010, under the theme:
Electronic assessment platforms for meaningful learning
The conference will address the following issues:
1.    What are electronic assessment platforms, and what functions do they serve in education?
2.    How such platforms are deployed in the construction of item banks, and what are these banks good for?
3.    How do electronic platforms and item banks contribute to authentic assessment and meaningful learning?
4.    What factors govern the efficiency of platforms and banks?
The conference will be held at Le Royal hotel in Dbayeh, Lebanon.
Plenary sessions will be held the morning of Saturday March 27, 2010. Keynote speakers include renowned international and Arab guests whose work about the theme of the conference is highly recognized worldwide. Among those:
•    Dr. Hans Wagemaker, Executive Director of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), who will deliver the paper:
International Assessments and Educational Policy: IEA's Assessment Strategy
•    Prof. Bill Boyle, Chair of Educational Assessment and Director of CFAS at the University of Manchester, who will deliver the paper:
The Contribution of e-Assessment to Formative Feedback and Deep Learning

•    Prof. Ibrahim Halloun, Chair, International Arab Baccalaureate, who will deliver the paper:
International Arab Baccalaureate and Authentic Electronic Assessment

Parallel sessions will be held in the afternoon. Educational measurement experts are invited to contribute 30-minute papers to the sessions, in English or Arabic, around any of the four issues listed above. Contributors are kindly asked to submit the title and abstract of their paper, along with a short biography, by February 20, 2010, to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it The abstract should consist of a 250-word Microsoft Word text in English (Times New Roman, 12 pt), along with an Arabic translation (Simplified Arabic, 12 pt), if possible. Abstracts will be reviewed, and authors notified about the outcome by February 27, 2010.
Preference will be given to papers that pertain to research conducted by the author(s), with clear implications to classroom practice.
 
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