Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium 2025

• Submissions deadline: 29 January 2025
• Review outcomes released: 20 February 2025
• Early bird registration deadline: 7 March 2025
• Presenter registration deadline: 7 March 2025
• In-person registration close: 17 March 2025
• Online registration close: 20 March 2025
• #EdMeas25: 21 March 2025

**Program subject to change

*Poster and panel sessions are available in person (face-to-face) only.

Organising Committee

Dr Kathryn Bartimote, Academic Convenor
A/Prof Sofia Kesidou, CEMA Academic
Prof Jim Tognolini, CEMA Director

Kathleen Walker, Event Manager

Program Committee

Dr Kathryn Bartimote (Chair), The University of Sydney
A/Prof Sofia Kesidou, The University of Sydney
Dr Lucy Lu, Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)
Prof Rachel Wilson, University of Technology Sydney

Prof Paul Richardson, Monash University & The University of Sydney

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.

Measurement topics could include for example school improvement, teaching quality, evaluation of school systems, large-scale assessments, test creation, race and educational measurement validity, psychometrics, measuring 21st century skills. 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, teacher data literacy.

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

Download the detailed call for proposals.

Kelly Buckley-Walker

Kellie Buckley-Walker is a Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Assessment at the University of Wollongong. With a background in secondary science teaching and student welfare, she brings 14 years of classroom experience to her role. Kellie currently leads a smaller team within a larger professional development team for the Department of Education’s School Leadership Institute. Her team focuses on providing training and support to Middle Leaders in leading classroom assessment. She also serves on the Higher School Certificate Standards Committee, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of the standards-setting process for the HSC. Her research focuses on assessments in education, particularly classroom-based assessment. Specifically, she is interested in data and assessment literacy, teacher data analysis skills, and the validity of classroom assessments.

Rowena Shirtcliff

Rowena Shirtcliff is the Program Director - Early Childhood with the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO), leading a team of researchers and educators focused on understanding how best to improve educational outcomes for young children.  From her first job as an early year’s teacher in a small rural community to more recently, working as a senior public servant, she has over 20 years of experience in policy, program implementation, large-scale data, funding reform and early childhood practice.  

Eddie Woo

Eddie Woo teaches mathematics at Cherrybrook Technology High School. His Youtube channel, Wootube, has more than 1.8 million subscribers and 160 million views of his everyday classroom lessons. Within the NSW Department of Education, he leads the Mathematics Growth Team, a statewide program of instructional leaders focused on engaging and evidence-based teaching practices. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Sydney, working with preservice teachers in the Sydney School of Education & Social Work. In 2018, he was named Australia’s Local Hero in the Australian of the Year Awards and listed as one of the Top 10 teachers in the world by the Global Teacher Prize. He is an internationally published author, TED speaker, and children’s TV host.

Amrit Perera

Amrit Perera is a Head of House (pastoral leader) at St Andrew’s Cathedral School, previously working as Assistant Head of English. He has over 16 years of experience teaching English in the Middle Years Programme (MYP), HSC and IB Diploma. In 2024 Amrit completed a Master of Education (Educational Management and Leadership) at the University of Sydney. For his dissertation, he researched school leaders’ and teachers’ phenomenological experience of assessment datafication. Currently, Amrit works within his faculty and pastoral teams to utilise student data to manage students’ academic progress and well-being. Outside of education, Amrit enjoys cycling and camping with his family.