Learning to Assess

Christopher DeLuca is an Associate Dean at the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs and Professor in Educational Assessment at the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada). He leads the Classroom Assessment Research Team and is Director of the Queen’s Assessment and Evaluation Group. ORCID: 0000-0001-5962-0827. Jill Willis is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). Her research focuses on reflexivity and agency in classroom assessment and evaluation processes. She currently leads research on accessibility in assessment, and student evaluations of vertical schools. ORCID: 0000-0001-5200-5039Bronwen Cowie is Associate Dean Research Te Kura Toi Tangata, Division of Education, University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand). Her research interests include assessment and assessment education, science education, and preservice and beginning teacher experiences. She has a particular interest in collaborative classroom-based research that includes student voice. ORCID: 0000-0003-3578-0791Christine Harrison is a Professor of Science Education at King’s College (London, UK). Her research interests are in assessment and science education, especially the ways teachers deal with the interplay between assessment and teaching. She is currently working on how assessment and teaching play out in science practical lessons in primary and secondary schools. ORCID: 0000-0002-1675-6107Andrew Coombs is a Teaching Assistant Professor at Memorial University (Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada). Andrew’s research focuses on understanding the factors shaping early career teachers’ assessment practices and assessment learning needs. He quantitative and qualitative research methods, curriculum theory, and classroom assessment.

• 1 Learning to assess.- 2 Teacher education landscape.- 3 Conceptualizing assessment capacity.- 4 Epistemological capacity.- 5 Embodied capacity.- 6 Experiential capacity.- 7 Ethical capacity.- 8 Cultivating assessment capacity.- 9 A future view.