Laure CHEN, Lily LEI, Monaliza Maximo CHIAN, Ling CHE
Assessment in education serves to enhance the quality of education. Macro-level assessments aim to provide accountability, qualifications, and accreditation at the institutional, programme, and individual levels; classroom assessments serve to support and improve the teaching process and students’ learning. Thus, both educators and learners need to strengthen their assessment literacy, i.e. the capability for teachers to adopt appropriate assessment methodologies to improve students’ learning, and to analyse, interpret and evaluate performance data; and the capability for students to assess and evaluate their own learning. While assessment of learning (AoL) focuses on determining students’ performance to learning objectives; assessment for learning (AfL) and assessment as learning (AaL) focus on the process of learning. Assessment for learning (AfL) is a process of gathering information about students’ learning, which informs teachers to modify their teaching with differentiated instruction and feedback for students to enhance their learning. Assessment as Learning (AaL) engages students in reflecting on and monitoring their learning progress, usually through self and peer assessment.
COVID-19 has called for an unexpected and temporary shift to online learning, i.e. emergency remote teaching (ERT), resulting in an increased reliance on digital assessment which enables comprehensive monitoring of students’ progress, exchanging immediate and personalised feedback, diminishing time and/or location restrictions, and evaluating generic skills, including collaboration and problem-solving skills (Nguyen et al., 2017; Timmis et al., 2016).
Below are some relevant and timely school examples, internet resources, and scholarly contributions that raise issues, considerations, and challenges as we strive to continually advance our knowledge on assessment to adapt to changing conditions on education.
References

Highly-Cited Academic Articles (Based on analysed results from Web of Science)
Articles Published in/about the Region
School Examples
HKU Hub
Chan, S. S. Y. (2021). Workshop on enhancing assessment literacy in the primary English classroom. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. (2020). Enhancing assessment literacy of teachers in primary/secondary schools.
HAVE Project. (2020, April 15). Enriching assessments with technology.
Internet Resources
YouTube Videos
Brave In The Attempt. (2020, April 12). Digital assessment webinar.
CMUCharters. (2017, March 21). Assessment literacy.
Tedx Talks. (2019, April 26). Effective feedback without marking - Nick Coles - TEDxPeterborough.
Virginia Department of Education. (2019, November 21). A guide to computer adaptive testing.
Websites
Burns, M. (2018, July 22). 15 benefits of computer-based testing. e-Learning Industry.
International Society of the Learning Sciences: Network of Academic Programs in the Learning Sciences - Interim Website. (n.d.). Jim Pellegrino: Assessment.
Michigan Assessment Consortium. (n.d.). Assessment resources – Assessment for learning.
Extended Readings
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