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• Wed 26 Nov 14 · Validity unpacked (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 23 Oct 14 · Question writing (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 23 Sep 14 · Reliability (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 24 Jun 14 · Test and item evaluation (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 18 Mar 14 · Introduction to the Undergraduate Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Assessment (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 26 Feb 14 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 6 Feb 14 · Basic Statistics (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 22 May 13 · The educational standards over time: has mathematics education in England improved? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 16 May 13 · Detecting cheating and plagiarism (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 24 Apr 13 · Education, values and society (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 13 Dec 12 · Equating and item banking with the Rasch model (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 12 Dec 12 · Are constructs really that important? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 6 Dec 12 · Introduction to Rasch (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 4 Dec 12 · Should we bother with expert judgement in awarding GCSEs and A levels? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Tue 27 Nov 12 · Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 22 Nov 12 · Issues in Question Writing | non-residential course [CPD] (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 22 Nov 12 · Issues in Question Writing (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 15 Nov 12 · Ofsted, accountability and assessment (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 8 Nov 12 · Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 6 Nov 12 · Grading (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 24 Oct 12 · Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 16 Oct 12 · The challenges of evaluating the impact of changes to qualification specifications on student learni (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 11 Oct 12 · Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 10 Oct 12 · Examining risk: deeper analysis of the pressures on assessment in England (6th Cambridge Assessment (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 4 Oct 12 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 26 Sep 12 · Validity theory and validation: never the twain shall meet? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 19 Sep 12 · Research methods in action: how do researchers use the CRAS (Complexity-Resources-Abstractness and S (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 13 Sep 12 · How can we ensure the value of the assessments we create? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 6 Sep 12 · How do examiners reach judgements? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Wed 15 Aug 12 · Basic Statistics (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 8 Aug 12 · Reliability and validity (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 Jul 12 · Measurement or judgement: is assessing an art or a science? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 19 Jun 12 · Students’ and teachers’ views and experiences of A level unit re-sits (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 13 Jun 12 · Test and item evaluation (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 31 May 12 · Question Writing (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 29 May 12 · Identifying the boundaries of validity theory: what’s in and what’s out? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Mon 21 May 12 · Francis Galton, measurement, psychometrics and social progress (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 15 May 12 · (De-) Formative assessment: is formative assessment as benign as we think? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 May 12 · How can assessment support learning? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 May 12 · Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 18 Apr 12 · Just how closely should textbooks link to public examinations? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 Apr 12 · What is the purpose of public assessments? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 11 Apr 12 · Question writing (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 4 Apr 12 · Making the most of our assessment data (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 21 Mar 12 · Making the most of our assessment data (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 15 Mar 12 · Current issues with National Curriculum assessment: lessons from school music education (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 8 Mar 12 · What is the purpose of public assessment? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 29 Feb 12 · Consensus, what consensus? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 14 Feb 12 · Basic statistics (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 8 Feb 12 · High-stakes testing at the school/university interface: experiences from the former socialist states (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 1 Feb 12 · Researching impact in an educational assessment context (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 25 Jan 12 · The science of career success: personality and psychometrics in education and beyond (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 19 Jan 12 · Reliability and validity (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 8 Dec 11 · Equating and item banking with the Rasch model (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 1 Dec 11 · Introduction to Rasch (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 24 Nov 11 · Developing a model for investigating the impact of assessment within educational contexts by a publi (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 15 Nov 11 · The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 15 Nov 11 · The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 Nov 11 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 Nov 11 · Metaphors, markets and marks: the general qualifications market and its deregulation (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 20 Oct 11 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 13 Oct 11 · Test and item evaluation (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 5 Oct 11 · Challenges to admissions testing; how arguments for validity, reliability, impact and practicality a (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Thu 22 Sep 11 · Epistemic ascent and curriculum design (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Thu 22 Sep 11 · Epistemic ascent and curriculum design (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Tue 20 Sep 11 · Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 14 Sep 11 · Trust: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 7 Sep 11 · Digging for validity: developing new ways of assessing extra-curricular achievement (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 11 Aug 11 · Educational changes under the coalition (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 11 Aug 11 · Educational changes under the coalition (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 3 Aug 11 · Grading (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 6 Jul 11 · Plagiarism in Higher Education: is there a postcode lottery? (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 29 Jun 11 · Educational changes under the coalition (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 15 Jun 11 · Measuring ‘quality’ in early education – determining whether pre-schools can support children to bec (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 9 Jun 11 · Reliability and validity (Cambridge Assessment Network, Cambridge)

• Thu 26 May 11 · Grading (OCR, Coventry)

• Mon 16 May 11 · Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 May 11 · Assessment for Higher Education entry: admissions testing (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 4 May 11 · Is assessing an art or a science? (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 28 Apr 11 · Ensuring comparability in a diverse and unregulated qualifications market (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 21 Apr 11 · Question writing (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 19 Apr 11 · What can we learn from the British Birth Cohort Studies? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 6 Apr 11 · Comparability of examination standards (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 5 Apr 11 · How can assessment support learning? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 23 Mar 11 · The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload (OCR, Coventry)

• Mon 21 Mar 11 · Making the most of our assessment data (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 15 Mar 11 · Inter-subject comparability, forced policy-making and the social responsibility of awarding bodies (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 Mar 11 · How can assessment support learning? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 Mar 11 · Assessing assessment – progress or politics? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 15 Feb 11 · How can we improve the quality of marking in our examinations and what does this mean for validity? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 Feb 11 · Basic Statistics (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 Feb 11 · The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 20 Jan 11 · What is the point of public assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 23 Nov 10 · Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 10 Nov 10 · Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 21 Sep 10 · Is assessing an art or a science? (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 2 Sep 10 · Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 5 Aug 10 · Item writing (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 14 Jul 10 · The validation of general qualifications (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 8 Jul 10 · Managing and implementing effective internal assessments (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 6 Jul 10 · Reviewing the impact of changes in the assessment of GCSEs (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 1 Jul 10 · How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Mon 19 Apr 10 · What can we learn from the British Birth Cohort Studies? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

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