EdMeas25, the Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium, is running for the second time in 2025, and will be hosted by the Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) at The University of Sydney on Friday 21 March 2025.

It is a research event designed to gather several different communities to share ideas and interact across boundaries – measurement and assessment – but also settings such as schools, universities, government departments and agencies, commercial entities, and NGOs. The central purpose of the Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium is to bring together people from a range of communities, settings, and traditions.

We envisage receiving proposals from those employed in the school sector, higher education sector, VET sector, government, and industry.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals are now invited for research presentations in the following formats. Research may be empirical, theoretical, evaluative, or policy oriented.

• Symposia
• Individual papers
• Posters
• Roundtables

Suggested Topics

Measurement topics could include for example school improvement and effectiveness, program evaluation, large-scale assessments, test creation, race and educational measurement validity, psychometrics, measuring 21^st century skills, evidence-informed teaching and learning, educational measurement at a national/state/province/sector level.

Assessment topics could include theory underlying assessment, feedback, formative assessment, automated assessment and AI, authentic assessment, collaborative/group assessment, learning analytics and assessment, equity in assessment, inclusive assessment, policy, assessment and curriculum reform, leading assessment, data literacy, assessment literacy, assessment technology.

Committees

Program Committee

• Kathryn Bartimote (Chair), The University of Sydney
• Sofia Kesidou, The University of Sydney
• Lucy Lu, Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)
• Rachel Wilson, University of Technology Sydney
• Paul Richardson, Monash University and The University of Sydney

Organizing committee

• Kathryn Bartimote, Academic convenor
• Kathleen Walker, Event manager
• Sofia Kesidou, CEMA Academic
• Jim Tognolini, CEMA Director

Venue

The sympoisum will be held primarily in-person in the Abercrombie Building on the Camperdown/Darlington campus of the The University of Sydney, but online participation will be available.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to CEMA@sydney.edu.au.