Assessment and the Challenge of Globalization
Globalization has become a major source of social change and has had unprecedented impact on the educational systems of nations across the world. As never before, assessments now play a more critical role in transforming educational policy, practice and technology so that locally-based knowledge and skills can be integrated with the demands of the global workplace.
The phenomenon of worldwide migration challenges assessment and qualification frameworks of both host cultures and source cultures in assuring the quality of human talent as people move around, relocate and settle in different places.
Concerns and issues about the applicability to other settings of assessment frameworks and technologies conceived and crafted in more advanced, globalized learning societies are central to the theme of the conference.
