Theme: "Assessment Literacy: Building Capacity for Quality Assessment Across Educational Systems and Assessment Providers"
Introduction:
AEA Europe 2026 provides a platform to share research findings and innovative practices, address ongoing challenges, and explore ways to strengthen assessment capacity across education systems. It also emphasizes dialogue across sectors, including schools, higher education, policy environments, and evaluative agencies, in order to build shared understandings of assessment quality and responsibility.
The conference theme reflects the increasing complexity of assessment and the need for those involved to develop the knowledge and skills required to use assessment information effectively and responsibly. Researchers, policymakers, assessment practitioners, and educators are encouraged to engage with questions of assessment literacy and professional capacity in relation to learning, equity, and educational improvement.
Focal points:
- Foundations of Assessment Literacy: Knowledge, Skills, and Beliefs
- Assessment Literacy in Practice: From Classroom to System
- Assessment Literacy, Equity, and Social Justice
- Assessment Literacy in the Digital Age: Technology, AI, and Innovation
- Developing Assessment Literacy: Professional Learning, Policy, and Systemic Capacity