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ACER Assessments :
In education, as in other areas of professional practice, good decision making is facilitated by access to relevant, reliable and timely information. Dependable information is required at all levels of educational decision making - from student, to parent, to classroom teacher, to school principal, to system manager - to identify areas of deficiency and special need, to monitor progress towards goals, and to evaluate the effectiveness of special interventions and initiatives. The most important indicator in education are those which address the central concern of the educational enterprise: the promotion of student learning. Measures of learning outcomes have a special significance as indicators of quality in education, as a basis for setting targets for improvement, and in monitoring progress towards educational goals. Research into factors underlying school effectiveness highlights the importance of the school manager's role in establishing an environment in which student learning is accorded a central focus, and goals for improved performance are developed collaboratively by staff with a commitment to achieving them. School managers require dependable pictures of how well students in a school are performing, both with respect to school goals for improvement and with respect to past achievements and achievements in other, comparable schools. Feedback to parents on student achievement is required if they are to become active partners in their children's learning. If parents are to make informed decisions and take active role in their children's learning, then they require dependable information about the progress individuals have made and about teacher's plans for future learning. For classroom teachers, systematically - collected information on student learning can be useful both for classroom decision making and for wider reporting purposes. Teachers on receiving feedback about their class students, have a powerful basis for structuring and evaluating individual and classroom learning. Students, too, benefit from feedback that enables them to monitor their own progress and to set goals for further learning. Students are more likely to become successful, independent learners when they are encouraged to appreciate learning as a lifelong process of individual growth through the development of new skill, deeper understandings, and more positive attitudes and values. Keeping in mind the above factors, we have designed some methods for improving learning which are listed below :
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