Educational Assessment in a Time of Reform provides background information on large scale examination systems more generally and the South African examination specifically.

Coert Loock is a professor at Department of Education Leadership and Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Vanessa Scherman is a professor at Department of Psychology of Education, University of South Africa, South Africa.

1. Background and introduction. 2. Background to large-scale examination systems. 3. Perspectives on education assessment reform. 4. Equating examinations and assessment standards in the South African context. 5. The management and quality assurance of school-based assessment in South Africa. 6. Using examination and assessment scores: Different ways of reporting performance. 7. Rethinking standard setting: Drawing from advances in modern test theory. 8. Item banking and computer adaptive testing. 9. Developing a computerised system for large scale computer adaptive testing (CAT). 10. Educational assessment in a time of reform: Where to from here?