Validity unpacked |
26 Nov 14 |
Question writing |
23 Oct 14 |
Reliability |
23 Sep 14 |
Test and item evaluation |
24 Jun 14 |
Introduction to the Undergraduate Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Assessment |
18 Mar 14 |
Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement |
26 Feb 14 |
Basic Statistics |
6 Feb 14 |
The educational standards over time: has mathematics education in England improved? |
22 May 13 |
Detecting cheating and plagiarism |
16 May 13 |
Education, values and society |
24 Apr 13 |
Equating and item banking with the Rasch model |
13 Dec 12 |
Are constructs really that important? |
12 Dec 12 |
Introduction to Rasch |
6 Dec 12 |
Should we bother with expert judgement in awarding GCSEs and A levels? |
4 Dec 12 |
Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? |
27 Nov 12 |
Issues in Question Writing |
22 Nov 12 |
Issues in Question Writing | non-residential course [CPD] |
22 Nov 12 |
Ofsted, accountability and assessment |
15 Nov 12 |
Can the public have confidence in national assessments? |
8 Nov 12 |
Grading |
6 Nov 12 |
Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research |
24 Oct 12 |
The challenges of evaluating the impact of changes to qualification specifications on student learni |
16 Oct 12 |
Can the public have confidence in national assessments? |
11 Oct 12 |
Examining risk: deeper analysis of the pressures on assessment in England (6th Cambridge Assessment |
10 Oct 12 |
Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement |
4 Oct 12 |
Validity theory and validation: never the twain shall meet? |
26 Sep 12 |
Research methods in action: how do researchers use the CRAS (Complexity-Resources-Abstractness and S |
19 Sep 12 |
How can we ensure the value of the assessments we create? |
13 Sep 12 |
How do examiners reach judgements? |
6 Sep 12 |
Basic Statistics |
15 Aug 12 |
Reliability and validity |
8 Aug 12 |
Measurement or judgement: is assessing an art or a science? |
12 Jul 12 |
Students’ and teachers’ views and experiences of A level unit re-sits |
19 Jun 12 |
Test and item evaluation |
13 Jun 12 |
Question Writing |
31 May 12 |
Identifying the boundaries of validity theory: what’s in and what’s out? |
29 May 12 |
Francis Galton, measurement, psychometrics and social progress |
21 May 12 |
(De-) Formative assessment: is formative assessment as benign as we think? |
15 May 12 |
How can assessment support learning? |
10 May 12 |
Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? |
2 May 12 |
Just how closely should textbooks link to public examinations? |
18 Apr 12 |
What is the purpose of public assessments? |
12 Apr 12 |
Question writing |
11 Apr 12 |
Making the most of our assessment data |
4 Apr 12 |
Making the most of our assessment data |
21 Mar 12 |
Current issues with National Curriculum assessment: lessons from school music education |
15 Mar 12 |
What is the purpose of public assessment? |
8 Mar 12 |
Consensus, what consensus? |
29 Feb 12 |
Basic statistics |
14 Feb 12 |
High-stakes testing at the school/university interface: experiences from the former socialist states |
8 Feb 12 |
Researching impact in an educational assessment context |
1 Feb 12 |
The science of career success: personality and psychometrics in education and beyond |
25 Jan 12 |
Reliability and validity |
19 Jan 12 |
Equating and item banking with the Rasch model |
8 Dec 11 |
Introduction to Rasch |
1 Dec 11 |
Developing a model for investigating the impact of assessment within educational contexts by a publi |
24 Nov 11 |
The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking |
15 Nov 11 |
The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking |
15 Nov 11 |
Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement |
10 Nov 11 |
Metaphors, markets and marks: the general qualifications market and its deregulation |
2 Nov 11 |
Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement |
20 Oct 11 |
Test and item evaluation |
13 Oct 11 |
Challenges to admissions testing; how arguments for validity, reliability, impact and practicality a |
5 Oct 11 |
Epistemic ascent and curriculum design |
22 Sep 11 |
Epistemic ascent and curriculum design |
22 Sep 11 |
Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? |
20 Sep 11 |
Trust: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? |
14 Sep 11 |
Digging for validity: developing new ways of assessing extra-curricular achievement |
7 Sep 11 |
Educational changes under the coalition |
11 Aug 11 |
Educational changes under the coalition |
11 Aug 11 |
Grading |
3 Aug 11 |
Plagiarism in Higher Education: is there a postcode lottery? |
6 Jul 11 |
Educational changes under the coalition |
29 Jun 11 |
Measuring ‘quality’ in early education – determining whether pre-schools can support children to bec |
15 Jun 11 |
Reliability and validity |
9 Jun 11 |
Grading |
26 May 11 |
Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study |
16 May 11 |
Assessment for Higher Education entry: admissions testing |
12 May 11 |
Is assessing an art or a science? |
4 May 11 |
Ensuring comparability in a diverse and unregulated qualifications market |
28 Apr 11 |
Question writing |
21 Apr 11 |
What can we learn from the British Birth Cohort Studies? |
19 Apr 11 |
Comparability of examination standards |
6 Apr 11 |
How can assessment support learning? |
5 Apr 11 |
The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload |
23 Mar 11 |
Making the most of our assessment data |
21 Mar 11 |
Inter-subject comparability, forced policy-making and the social responsibility of awarding bodies |
15 Mar 11 |
How can assessment support learning? |
10 Mar 11 |
Assessing assessment – progress or politics? |
2 Mar 11 |
How can we improve the quality of marking in our examinations and what does this mean for validity? |
15 Feb 11 |
Basic Statistics |
10 Feb 11 |
The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload |
2 Feb 11 |
What is the point of public assessments? |
20 Jan 11 |
Resits in high-stakes examinations: the unusual case of A levels |
12 Jan 11 |
Degrees of success: progressing to Higher Education through vocational pathways |
15 Dec 10 |
Equating and item banking with the Rasch model |
9 Dec 10 |
To err is human… What can psychological theories of human error add to our understanding of examiner |
8 Dec 10 |
Introduction to Rasch |
2 Dec 10 |
Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability |
23 Nov 10 |
Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency |
10 Nov 10 |
Is assessing an art or a science? |
21 Sep 10 |
Can the public have confidence in national assessments? |
2 Sep 10 |
Item writing |
5 Aug 10 |
The validation of general qualifications |
14 Jul 10 |
Managing and implementing effective internal assessments |
8 Jul 10 |
Reviewing the impact of changes in the assessment of GCSEs |
6 Jul 10 |
How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? |
1 Jul 10 |
What can we learn from the British Birth Cohort Studies? |
19 Apr 10 |
