About us

The FLIP+ e-assessment community was officially launched as a non-profit association in June 2019.

It grew from first conversations dating back to January 2017 between the official education assessment bodies from four countries (France-Luxembourg-Italy-Portugal: hence the acronym) who were seeking solutions to common challenges in e-assessment. The assessment centre (CAEd) from Brazil joined this initial group in 2018, and ever since several other institutions and bodies from many countries have expressed their interest in the initiative.

Sharing is the keyword of FLIP+ members. In this context, the community addresses the opportunities, challenges and solutions that education systems are exploring during the transition from paper-based assessments (PBA) to computer-based assessments (CBA) to better measure student performance in education. These include cost reduction, technology-enhanced assessments, adaptive testing, real-time feedback into learning, which themselves give rise to new challenges (such as usability, security, equipment and digital divide).

Through the FLIP+ collaboration, the association aims to contribute knowledge, technology systems and tools as well as digital content to education systems that are seeking to create a robust test delivery platform which supports “large to very-large-scale assessment”.

How to become a member?

Sharing

Within the FLIP+ e-assessment community, members can share:

  • Knowledge and experiences in e-assessment related to robust open-source solutions for very-large-scale assessment, formative e-learning, professional development related to e-learning, research initiatives such as user-experience, big data analytics and many others.
  • Technology development including interoperable technology-enhanced items and student tools, building of sharing systems, delivery of e-assessment and integrated systems such as marking, reporting, analytics and learning.
  • Content (item library) for the administration of e-assessments – these should be secure, valid and reliable and should meet standard criteria and guidelines.

Founding Board members

President: Roberto Ricci, INVALSI, Italy
Vice-President: Helder Sousa, Portugal
Vice-President: Manuel Palacios, CAEd, Brazil
Executive Secretary: Amina Afif, Luxembourg
Treasurer: Thierry Rocher, DEPP, France


Institutional Members

AQAUnited Kingdom
Cambridge University Press and AssessmentUnited Kingdom
Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação - CAEdBrazil
DEPPFrance
DIPF – Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in EducationGermany
Educational Research Centre (ERC)Ireland
Flemish Department for Education and TrainingBelgium
IAVEPortugal
I.N.V.A.L.S.IItaly
ICT CONNECT 21Japan
Instance Nationale d'Evaluation (INE/CSEFRS)Morocco
Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa (INEE)Spain
Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa (INEEd)Uruguay
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
International Baccalaureate Organisation
National Agency for EducationLithuania
National Assessment and Examination Center (NAEC)Georgia
National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)United Kingdom
Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (NDET)Norway
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)Switzerland
Service de la recherche en éducation – Etat de GenèveSwitzerland
St. CitoNetherlands
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Université de LuxembourgLuxembourg

Individual Members

Anand KaratCanada
Bryan MaddoxUnited Kingdom
Hans-Otto SterlingGermany
Jean-Philippe RivièreFrance
Marc OswaldLuxembourg
Mark MolenaarNetherlands
Steve DeptBelgium

Honorary Members

Amina AfifLuxembourg
Helder SousaPortugal