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Copyright page:

New affiliations for the book editors’ have been updated as mentioned below in the copyright page:

David Coniam

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

The Education University of Hong Kong

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Peter Falvey

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

The Education University of Hong Kong

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Acknowledgements:

Christina Lee’s information has now been updated as below:

Christina Lee of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) provided her expertise and experience to create and write Chaps. 2 and 3. Chapter 2 ‘The Role of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority’ introduces the reader to the background to the development and implementation of OSM in Hong Kong and describes the processes that the innovation went through. In Chap. 3, ‘Onscreen Marking System’, Christina, through the use of screen-grabs demonstrates for the reader what the markers physically see on the screen as they process and mark scripts and record their marks.

Contributors:

University affiliation has been updated to a new name for the contributors’ as mentioned below in the contributors list:

David Coniam is Chair Professor of Curriculum and Assessment and head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at The Education University of Hong Kong, where he is a teacher educator, working with teachers in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. His main publication and research interests are in language assessment, language teaching methodology and computer-assisted language learning.

Peter Falvey is a teacher educator. A former head of department in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong; he is currently affiliated in an honorary professorial role with The Education University of Hong Kong. His main publication and research interests are in language assessment, first and second language writing methodology and text linguistics.

Zi Yan is Assistant Professor and associate head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at The Education University of Hong Kong. His main publication and research interests are in educational and psychological assessment and Rasch measurement.

Introduction:

Name of the author, Yan Zi has been changed to Zi Yan.

Foreword, Contributors and Introduction:

Name of the author, Alison Yeung has been changed to Alison Sau-chu Yeung.

Chapters:

Chapter author names were missed in the chapter opening pages. Author names have now been included.

Chapters 2 and 3 – Christina Lee

Chapter 7 – David Coniam, Peter Falvey, and Alison Sau-chu Yeung

Chapters 10, 12 and 13 – David Coniam, Peter Falvey, and Zi YanThe online versions of the original chapters can be found under DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_2DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_3DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_7DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_10DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_12DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_13