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”.
Within the FLIP+ e-assessment community, members can share:
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
| AQA | United Kingdom |
| Cambridge University Press and Assessment | United Kingdom |
| Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação - CAEd | Brazil |
| DEPP | France |
| DIPF – Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education | Germany |
| Educational Research Centre (ERC) | Ireland |
| Flemish Department for Education and Training | Belgium |
| IAVE | Portugal |
| I.N.V.A.L.S.I | Italy |
| ICT CONNECT 21 | Japan |
| 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 Education | Lithuania |
| 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 Genève | Switzerland |
| St. Cito | Netherlands |
| UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) | |
| Université de Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Anand Karat | Canada |
| Bryan Maddox | United Kingdom |
| Hans-Otto Sterling | Germany |
| Jean-Philippe Rivière | France |
| Marc Oswald | Luxembourg |
| Mark Molenaar | Netherlands |
| Steve Dept | Belgium |
| Amina Afif | Luxembourg |
| Helder Sousa | Portugal |
