Possible topics for the 17th AEA Europe conference include (please note that this list is not exhaustive):
• Public trust in high-stakes assessments
• The social responsibility of Examination Boards and Awarding Bodies
• How stakeholder mandates and lobbies affect the assessment agenda
• Regulation of the assessment industry: initiatives, innovations and accountability
• The impact of legislation on educational assessment
• The politics of external and school-based assessment
• Assessment and the reproduction of social stratification
• The politics behind national and international attainment studies
• Evidence-based policy making in assessment
• Technological and psychometric innovations in assessment
• New assessment formats
• Alternative assessment paradigms
• Critical approaches in educational assessment
• Validity issues in educational assessment
• Assessment for citizenship
• Social and political underpinnings of vocational assessment
• Tensions between assessment for learning and accountability
• Cross-country comparisons of educational reform and associated assessment approaches
• Trust in teacher assessment
• The teacher as a stakeholder in the development of new assessment paradigms
