Lifelong Learning and the Assessment and Evaluation Practices in Some Australian Faculties of Education

Abstract

This article reports the findings of a project – Lifelong Learning and Teacher Education – undertaken by the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Australian Catholic University, under the auspices of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training. The study was designed to investigate the operationalisation of lifelong learning in Australian teacher education. The assessment practices within Faculties of Education were among a range of issues investigated in the study. The study revealed that there is a range of existing innovative assessment practices that are in keeping with emerging ideas about lifelong learning. In this article, some of the current practices with procedures for setting and assessing standards in Australian Faculties of Education are described and discussed from a lifelong learning perspective