SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
Azerbaijan to host SCSA international conference
Baku, November 22 (AZERTAC). An international conference entitled “The State Student Admission Commission of Azerbaijan-20 years: stages of development” will be held in Baku on November 23-24.
According to SCSA, the conference will discuss the achievements and prospects of development of the State Commission, the quality assessment of preparing students of educational institutions on the basis of online testing, automated examination stages and e-services of SCSA.
Specialists from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan will report on the themes “The State Students Admission Commission: achievements, development prospects”, “The International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA)- Purpose and Objectives”, “Assessment of quality of preparing students of educational institutions on the basis of results of Internet testing”, “System of assessment of the education quality in Kazakhstan”, “Assessment system in Tajikistan”, “Automatization of examination stages: targets, results”, “Development stages of forming and management of Item bank”, “Development of the content of examination”, “Student-Graduate” State Electronic Information System and electronic archive” and others.
A roundtable meeting is also planned to be held within the conference. The roundtable will focus on a wide range of issues including reading of the briefly formatted answers of open-ended test items and turning them into text via software, methods for measuring competences and use of results of statistical analysis of examination answers for planning of education and raising its quality.