Write a 2000-word essay examining the role, practice and significance of assessment and reporting to students’ learning. Your essay needs to explicitly answer the following three questions: What are...

Studies show that a quality assessment affects and influence the student’s learning and education in all aspects. Masters (2014) has stated in his article that implying assessment on student helps in knowing that where the student is currently standing in his learning journey at the time of the assessment. Jennifer, (2013) has defined the educational assessment as process of collecting the reviews and information in relation with the educational programs in a systematic way. This is done with the purpose to improve the student’s learning and development process. Educational assessment is an important factor in assessing the learning program’s efficiency, instruction quality and student’s learning progress. It also makes the learning process government accountable, personal satisfaction is promoted and allows the schools to encourage excellence and equity (Taras, 2002).
The increasing globalization and leading world economy are leading towards ever-changing curriculum and teaching and learning standards which are formally applied and followed in the Australian Curriculum. The evaluation of the social and political context ensures that the changes happening in curriculum policies and procedures are aiming towards students achieving the standard education and within Australian schools displaying high performance standards. There are some standard tests like Programme for International Student Assessment and TIMSS also known as Internal Maths and Science Study those are used to compare the learning level of the students at national and international level (Klenowski,2011; Masters,2014). As per Klenowski (2011), a standard assessment data is used by the Australian government to determine the allocation of resources to the schools those requires additional funds, change in the curriculum programs and teaching pedagogies. The schools demand these resources to match the consistent and national level educational and learning standards. Also, providing the education without considering the socio-cultural or socio-economic factors of the students.
NAPLAN, an Australian nation-wide test in which the students from all over the country participates, for which the teachers are held accountable for the results the student acquires. The application of NAPLAN in the education system of Australia has resulted in developing uniformity in the curriculum which is ACARA. This has allowed the standard curriculum aiming the standard achievements but it has also made the curriculum to be promoting superficial learning. The advancement of PISA and NAPLAN in Australia has resulted in increased inequity within the schools of Australia. Especially in the low socio-economic localities and Indigenous communities (Smith, Parr & Muhidin, 2018). These tests also provide the data of the student’s current performances, which includes the underperformers, good performers, education level gaps between the male and female students, and students coming from Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.
Equity in the learning processes of schools is imperative, as per The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australian advocates. Learning is a fair process and demands equality for all students. But, just ensuring the socio-economic concerns, ceases to provide equality to the student those are disabled (Sethusha, 2014).
The aim of the political stakeholders is towards learning consistency across Australia due to increased accountability. This is achieved due to the agreement that has developed between the (MCEEDCYA) Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs and (COAG) the Council of Australian Governments. This agreement aims at developing a national structure of expectations to improve the countability and transparency (Churchill et al., 2016).
Besides, the utilization of accomplishment principles for evaluation and announcing will additionally require the improvement of instructors' appraisal proficiency and evaluation rehearses.
Empowering instructors and educational programs organizers to first 'think like an assessor' before planning explicit units and exercises, and along these lines to consider in advance how they will decide whether understudies have achieved the coveted understandings (Mislevy & Zwick, 2012). As indicated by Brookfield, "A basically intelligent instructor is greatly improved set to convey to partners and understudies (and also to herself) the reason behind her training. At the point when understudies' exhibitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of a development attitude, the center is setting up where understudy been and where presently in their learning at the season of the appraisal. The information and abilities by and by exhibited should paying little mind to sex culture, year level and learning...