This paper reports on the results of a 3-year study conducted at the Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT) at Edith Cowan University in collaboration with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia which concerns the potential to use digital technologies to represent the output from assessment tasks in the senior secondary…

This bulletin is the first in a series of publications on the Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) examinations. Suggestions which teachers and examining boards can adopt, modify, or reject are included as well as an explanation of the Councils' adopted policies. Section I - The C. S. E. Examination System discusses the general principles of…

The reliability and validity of a trial examination for home economics is described. A preliminary test was submitted to 150 fifth year pupils who were not involved in the final examination, as guidance in constructing the accepted tests. The four methods used in the final analysis were: (a) a theory paper requiring nine written answers relating…