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Discover the latest podcasts from the Cambridge Assessment Group
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- 109 - Technological challenges from our past - Cambridge Assessment archives
As part of the Cambridge Assessment Summit of Education, Group Archivist Gillian Cooke led a breakout session looking back at the technology Cambridge Assessment used in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here she explains how the group has continually embraced innovation. Cambridge Assessment has a 160-year legacy but without technology we couldn’t have started!
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Fri, 20 Dec 2019 - 6min - 108 - The rise of thinking skills in higher education and the workplace
Both employers and higher education institutions are placing an increasing importance on thinking skills as part of their selection processes. But what do we mean by thinking skills, why are they so important, and how can individuals improve them? In this podcast we talk to Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics and James Westley, Group Leader at Cambridge Consultants.
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Mon, 26 Apr 2021 - 20min - 107 - Are you testing or are you assessing? Exploring a holistic approach to assessment in schools
This is the final instalment in a series of podcasts from Cambridge Assessment Network focusing on different aspects and forms of assessment. In this episode, Tony Emmerson, Senior Deputy Head at The English College in Prague and Mark Frazer, Teaching Learning and Assessment Lead at CEM explore the differences between testing and assessment and how assessment data can be utilised in schools to support learning, particularly after the disruption of the pandemic.
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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 - 50min - 106 - Helping students manage anxiety in 2021 and beyond
Professor Dave Putwain from Liverpool John Moores University joined Jill Duffy, Chief Executive of our UK exam board, OCR, to discuss the topic of student anxiety. Prof Putwain has a PhD in stress and anxiety, and he offers practical tips on how to reduce and manage anxiety that will be useful for students, parents and their teachers, this year and beyond.
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Thu, 25 Mar 2021 - 28min - 105 - Admissions tests: Discovering candidates with the most potential
This is the fourth in a series of podcasts from Cambridge Assessment Network focusing on different aspects and forms of assessment. In this episode, Mike Housden, Senior Assessment Manager at Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing discusses how admissions tests can be used to identify candidates with the most potential, how they give students an opportunity to demonstrate a core understanding of their subject and how they can help to prepare students for university education.
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Wed, 24 Mar 2021 - 27min - 104 - How do we support the education sector through professional development?
This is the third episode in a series of podcasts from our colleagues in the Cambridge Assessment Network on the different aspects and forms of assessment. Today we are with David Russell from The Education and Training Foundation talking about professional development for teachers and trainers, the principles of effective CPD and how it can best be used to support the education sector.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2021 - 39min - 103 - Transforming teaching practice through assessment expertise
In the second episode in this series from our colleagues in the Cambridge Assessment Network, Penelope speaks to Loic from the Centre for Education and Youth about transforming teaching practice through assessment expertise.
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Wed, 24 Feb 2021 - 21min - 102 - Assessing apprenticeships
The Cambridge Assessment Network speak to Callum and Leo from the NCFE about the challenges and complexities involved in assessing apprenticeships and why apprenticeships are such an important route to qualification. The release of this podcast coincides with National Apprenticeship Week 2021 in England.
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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 - 33min - 101 - Introducing the General Certificate of Education
Introducing the GCE - an extract from Chapter 3 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Helen and John Patrick
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Fri, 27 Nov 2020 - 2min - 100 - The first Cambridge English exams
The first Cambridge English exams - an extract from Chapter 5 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Peter Falvey and Gillian Cooke
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Thu, 26 Nov 2020 - 2min - 99 - Exams during the Second World War
Exams during the Second World War - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Andrew Watts and Chapter 4, by Greg Lacey
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Wed, 25 Nov 2020 - 2min - 98 - Premise to 1965
Premises to 1965 - an extract from Chapter 1 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Elisabeth Leedham Green
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Tue, 24 Nov 2020 - 2min - 97 - Syndics
Syndics - an extract from from Chapter 1 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Elisabeth Leedham Green
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Mon, 23 Nov 2020 - 3min - 96 - Examination expansion overseas
Examination expansion overseas - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Andrew Watts
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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 - 2min - 95 - Examinations and girls' education
Examinations and girls' education - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Andrew Watts.
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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 - 3min - 94 - How a teacher training programme is adapting during Covid-19
Anna Richards from the Suffolk & Norfolk School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) joins colleagues from Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing to discuss how the SCITT's teacher training programmes have been forced to adapt during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sat, 25 Jul 2020 - 30min - 93 - Teaching migration, empire and colonialism in Britain's history lessons
Are UK history lessons inclusive enough so that everyone can see themselves in the story? Do they take into account the many legacies of the British Empire and colonialism? History teachers, Clare Broomfield and Sitara Amin; historian and co-lead of the Runnymede Trust's 'Our Migration Story', Sundeep Lidher; and Lead Subject Advisor at OCR, Mike Goddard, join us in this important discussion.
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Thu, 09 Jul 2020 - 47min - 92 - How Covid-19 is shaping the future of education
Michelle Fava, Mark Andrews and Dan Frost reflect on ideas discussed at last year's SHAPE Education conference and consider how Covid-19 has created the conditions for innovation in education.
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Tue, 05 May 2020 - 22min - 91 - Proposals to develop a GCSE in natural history
OCR's development of a GCSE in natural history is discussed by Jill Duffy, OCR Chief Executive and Tim Oates, Cambridge Assessment Director of Assessment Research and Development.
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Fri, 13 Mar 2020 - 15min - 90 - How can we support women and girls in science education?
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, as an exam board, we are considering what Cambridge Assessment can do to support and encourage female learners in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2020 - 19min - 88 - Using technology to ensure curriculum coherence
In this podcast based on their Summit of Education afternoon session, Nicky Rushton and Darren Macey of Cambridge Maths discuss how new technologies have the potential to transform the delivery of a subject like mathematics in classrooms.
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Wed, 29 Jan 2020 - 17min - 85 - Professor Dame Athene Donald - My life in Science
How can we get more girls into STEM subjects? Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, talks about her life in science and her advice to school leaders on getting girls into STEM.
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Wed, 21 Aug 2019 - 18min - 84 - The Cambridge Refugee Support Committee
In the first of a three-part refugee education special, Sol and Sinead explain how the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee started and what they do.
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Thu, 01 Aug 2019 - 18min - 83 - Volunteering in the Calais refugee camp
Sol, Lee and Peter from the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee talk about volunteering in Calais, France, in the second episode of our refugee education series.
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Fri, 02 Aug 2019 - 22min - 82 - Support for refugees and teachers of refugees
Cambridge English have been working to help refugees access education, training and English language courses, as Will Shaw and Chloe Saville explain in the third of our podcast series on refugee education.
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Sat, 03 Aug 2019 - 15min - 81 - An antidote to 'Teaching to the Test?'
Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, predicts the impact of Ofsted's (the UK schools watchdog) new proposed inspection framework and whether it will help to reverse the current perceived emphasis on test scores as a means to judge whether a school is performing well.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 - 10min - 80 - The Press and Assessment - A special exhibition
Gillian Cooke, Group Archivist, Cambridge Assessment talks through a special exhibition currently housed at Cambridge University Press which illustrates our 170-year working partnership.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 - 7min - 79 - Emotional Resilience in Young People
Professor Colleen McLaughlin shares her long history in the field of emotional development and resilience in young people. She explains why it is important and explores whether can we teach it.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 - 11min - 78 - Opening doors for migrants
Dr Sinéad Fitzsimons shared her experiences of projects designed to open doors for migrants to access education and how they dovetail with the work of Cambridge Assessment and partners.
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 - 14min - 77 - New look for education economics research digest
James Croft and Gabriel Heller Sahlgren from the Centre for Education Economics (CfEE) talk about what the CfEE does, why education economics is important and how their regular research digest is changing.
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Thu, 07 Feb 2019 - 13min - 76 - The year ahead
Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, talks about what he thinks will be the hot topics in education in 2019, including T Levels, quality of marking, and recent reforms to A Levels and GCSEs.
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Thu, 07 Feb 2019 - 11min - 75 - Black Cantabs
This groundbreaking exhibition tells the stories of black students in Cambridge, from the forgotten pioneers of centuries past to the celebrated successes of today. Narrated by Favaad Iqbal and Yozzie Osman from the Cambridge Assessment BAME Network.
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Fri, 19 Oct 2018 - 20min - 74 - Policy Exchange - Powerful Knowledge
We hosted, via Periscope, the online of a Policy Exchange seminar on creating a 'powerful knowledge' curriculum in schools.
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Tue, 10 May 2016 - 20min - 73 - Tim Oates - Assessment without levels
Following the interest generated by Tim Oates' video for the Department of Education earlier in the year, Cambridge Assessment has commissioned a new 45 minute version, allowing for more explanation as to how the removal of levels in Primary education will open the door to a deeper understanding.
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Fri, 31 Oct 2014 - 44min - 72 - Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Newcastle, describes his 'schools in the cloud' experiment.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 - 20min - 71 - Lord David Puttnam
Lord David Puttnam CBE FRSA describes how technology enables him to deliver modules to university students across the world from his home in Ireland.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 - 20min - 70 - What's it really like to be in the cloud?
Technology in the classroom today. ALISON project, Futurelearn, Cambridge International Examinations and Cambridge Computing Online demonstrate some innovative uses of technology in learning today.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 - 59min - 69 - Cloud schools - the big debate
Chaired by Pat Glass MP, a panel and audience discussion ‘Technology and education: what’s the future for face-to-face learning?’.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 - 44min - 68 - Seminar: Vocational qualifications and their interaction with the labour market
Professor Ewart Keep talks about vocational qualifications and the labour market
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Wed, 09 Oct 2013 - 56min - 67 - Seminar: The Cambridge Assessment Archives - not just an historical treasures
Gillian Cooke and Andrew Watts examine the role of the Corporate Archives from the organisation’s beginnings as the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate in 1858 and through subsequent years of continuity and change.
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Tue, 01 Oct 2013 - 1h 03min - 66 - Seminar: The importance of ideas for sound assessment and high performing education systems
Paul Newton, Tim Oates and Nick Saville examine the role of ideas – theory, assumptions and values – which, in some cases, are consciously adopted as the basis of specific assessments, and in other cases perform powerful, but unspoken, shaping.
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 - 1h 10min - 65 - Challenge and success: alternative approaches to assessment in the primary classroom
Alison Peacock talks about the alternative approach that her primary school has taken to assessment, pedagogy and curriculum throughout KS1 and KS2.
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Thu, 19 Sep 2013 - 37min - 64 - Has maths education improved? - Interview with the presenter
Professor Jeremy Hodgen of King’s College London joins Cambridge Assessment's Tim Oates to debate whether maths education in England has improved over recent years.
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Wed, 22 May 2013 - 21min - 63 - First panel debate - It does not add up: maths education today
Panel debate on 'Numeracy, arithmetic, maths – what age and at what stage?' featuring: Lynne McClure, Project Director – NRICH; Lynn Churchman, Trustee – National Numeracy; Jennie Golding, deputy chair – Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME); and Tim Oates, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development – Cambridge Assessment.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 - 1h 01min - 62 - Second panel debate - It does not add up: maths education today
Panel debate on 'Making maths relevant' with: Charlie Stripp, Chief Executive – MEI and Director – National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics; Mark McCourt, Chairman – Teacher Development Trust, CEO – Beluga Learning; Janet De Wilde, Head of STEM – The Higher Education Academy.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 - 45min - 61 - Technology and maths - It does not add up: maths education today
Chaired by Dr Christine Binns, Mathematics Mastery Curriculum Development Lead, ARK Schools, a viewpoint debate on whether technology is changing maths for the better featuring Conrad Wolfram, Founder – Computerbasedmath.org, and European CEO – Wolfram, and Tony Gardiner, British mathematician.
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Wed, 15 May 2013 - 45min - 60 - Taking GCSEs early - Interview with the presenters
Cambridge Assessment researchers Beth Black, Chung-Pak Cheung and Tim Gill discuss whether students who take GCSEs early perform better in their chosen examinations, or are they giving up their chance of getting a higher grade?
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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 - 12min - 59 - Teaching and Assessing 21st century skills - Part 2
21st century skills – a 21st century problem? Part 2 of our big debate.
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Thu, 28 Feb 2013 - 1h 30min - 58 - International Surveys - Interview with the presenters
Dr Newman Burdett and Rebecca Wheater answer questions on international surveys.
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Wed, 30 Jan 2013 - 13min - 57 - Translanguaging: an interview with the presenters
Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research - interviews with Dr W Gwyn Lewis (Bangor University), Helen Imam and Stuart Shaw (Cambridge International Examinations)
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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 - 25min - 56 - Using the CRAS framework and Kelly's Repretory Grid technique
How do researchers use the CRAS framework and Kelly's Repretory Grid technique in assessment research studies - Martin Johnson (Cambridge Assessment)
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Wed, 19 Sep 2012 - 1h 05min - 55 - How do examiners reach judgements?
Victoria Elliott (Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment and Warwick Institute of Education) and Dr Talia Isaacs (University of Bristol) present.
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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 - 1h 20min - 54 - Further discussion and closing remarks - Can't speak, can't learn
From the event on 'Can't speak, can't learn: what's the impact of non-native speakers in schools?'
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 36min - 53 - Panel discussion - Can't speak, can't learn
Panel discussion chaired by Dr Nick Saville (Cambridge English Language Assessment); Featuring Dr Frank Monaghan (National Association for Language Development in Curriculum), Prof Dr Piet Van Avermaet (Ghent University, Belgium), Timothy Chadwick (consultant and teacher-trainer - language and testing)
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 30min - 52 - Pupil performance on the changing geography of ethnic minority pupils in secondary schools - Can't speak, can't learn
Dr Sandra McNally (London School of Economics and Political Science)
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 7min - 51 - Questions and discussion - Can't speak, can't learn
Questions and discussion Session - Can't speak, can't learn: what's the impact of non-native speakers in schools?
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 7min - 50 - Teaching EAL Students - Can't speak, can't learn
Lee Donaghy (Park View Business & Enterprise School, Birmingham)
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 10min - 49 - The impact of language skills on future life and career chances - Can't speak, can't learn
Phililda Schellekens (consultant, author, teacher and teacher-trainer)
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 11min - 48 - The impact upon the community - Can't speak, can't learn
Phil Woolas (Former UK immigration minister and Labour MP)
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Tue, 22 May 2012 - 10min - 47 - Findings from our HE Engagement
Findings from our research on higher education engagement and A Levels
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Tue, 01 May 2012 - 53min - 46 - What can our education system really learn from the East?
Isabel Nisbet (Cambridge International Examinations) gives an insight.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 - 53min - 45 - Just how closely should textbooks link to public examinations?
Tim Oates (Cambridge Assessment) and Dr Mary Bousted (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) discuss.
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 - 56min - 44 - Current issues with National Curriculum assessment: lessons from school music education
Current issues with National Curriculum assessment: lessons from school music education - Professor Martin Fautley (Birmingham City University)
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 - 54min - 43 - Dr Nadia Touba - Learning comes first
Lessons from around the world - Dr Nadia Touba (Project Director of Nile Egyptian Schools NES – Egyptian Education Fund, Cabinet of Ministers – Egypt)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 17min - 42 - Jon Coles - Learning comes first
Jon Coles (Chief Executive of United Church Schools Trust/United Learning Trust, former Director General for Education Standards, Department for Education)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 17min - 41 - Programmes of Learning - Learning comes first
Programmes of learning: the rise of ‘curriculum’ thinking in the UK - Paul Pritchard (Chair of Governors at the JCB Academy), Andrew Hutchinson (Executive Principal of Parkside Federation, Cambridge) & Dr Stephen Spurr (Headmaster, Westminster School)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 17min - 40 - Refocusing education? - Learning comes first
Panel debate: 'Refocusing education? - Nansi Ellis (Head of Education Policy and Research, ATL), Richard Earp (Education & Skills Manager, National Grid), Dale Bassett (Research Director, Reform), Dr Graeme Atherton (Executive Director, Aimhigher)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 34min - 39 - Roger-Francois Gauthier - Learning comes first
Lessons from around the world - Roger-Francois Gauthier (Inspector General for Administration of National Education and Research, France, and a UNESCO consultant)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 9min - 38 - Opening remarks - Learning comes first
Setting the context and sharing a historical perspective - Simon Lebus (Group Chief Executive, Cambridge Assessment)
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 - 9min - 37 - Epistemic ascent and curriculum design
Academic subjects are generally assumed to be composed of propositional rather than practical knowledge. This talk looks at the relationship between subject knowledge, inferential ability and ability to validate and establish truths in the perspective of an ascent from novice to expert within a subject area.
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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 - 48min - 36 - Learning, Teaching and the Brain
Teachers must be cautious when they find ideas that allege some sort of basis in neuroscience. But there are some positive things such as the effective exercise on learning and the need for children to learn something about their own brain and what effect this can have on their achievement. At a conference hosted by University of Cambridge International Examinations, Dr Paul Howard Jones from Bristol University explained how teachers can use insights from neuroscience to provide more effective teaching and learning.
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Sun, 11 Sep 2011 - 55min - 35 - Digging for validity: an interview with archaeologist Dr Lewis
Guest speaker and archaeologist Dr Carenza Lewis explains how a valid assessment model has been developed for an extra-curricular activity.
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Wed, 07 Sep 2011 - 19min - 34 - Education changes under the Coalition Government
The coalition government has launched many educational policies: academies, free schools, the English Baccalaureate and the freedom for parents and teachers to choose qualifications. What are the implications for today's learners?
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Thu, 11 Aug 2011 - 1h 18min - 33 - Plagiarism in UK Law schools: is there a postcode lottery?
Although there is a generalised notion of academic misconduct and an assumption that there is a common understanding of the offences across universities, a variation in attitudes to plagiarism is shown to exist.
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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 - 30min - 32 - Can pre-schools support children to become better learners
Measuring 'quality' in early education - determining whether pre-schools can support children to become better learners
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Tue, 05 Jul 2011 - 1h 13min - 31 - Parliamentary seminar: What can we learn from other improving school systems?
What can we learn from other improving school systems? - featuring Graham Stuart MP (Chair, Education Select Committee), Professor David Raffe (University of Edinburgh), Dr Marian Sainsbury (National Foundation for Educational Research), Professor Lorraine Dearden (Institute for Fiscal Studies) - 28 June 2011
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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 - 53min - 30 - Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? A case study: Cambridge Pre-U
This presentation will provide an account of the background, development and implementation of the Cambridge Pre-U.
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Fri, 17 Jun 2011 - 1h 13min - 29 - Assessment for Higher Education entry: admissions testing
This seminar will consider the place of admissions testing, in the overall range of assessment options for Higher Education entry.
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Fri, 17 Jun 2011 - 1h 16min - 28 - Ensuring comparability in a diverse and unregulated qualification market
In this talk Professor Coe will propose a structure for doing this. Examples will be given, together with a discussion of pros and cons of different approaches.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 52min - 27 - What can we learn from the British Birth Cohort Studies?
In this presentation, Professor Jane Elliott will introduce some of the landmark research carried out using longitudinal evidence from the cohort studies, and examine some of the opportunities for future research as the studies develop.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 57min - 26 - Comparability of examination standards: understanding of the issues and directions for the future
In this seminar a panel of key staff will discuss the issues surrounding comparability and will engage in debate with the audience about methods for establishing comparability, public understanding of the issues and directions for the future.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 1h 03min - 25 - Inter-subject comparability, forced policy-making and the social responsibility of awarding bodies
A frequent claim of awarding bodies is that standards are comparable across assessments in different subject areas. And if they are not, the awarding bodies can make them comparable through appropriate statistical techniques, or so the argument goes. It is not surprising that in many countries such brave statements are received with suspicion and mistrust by the stakeholders.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 43min - 24 - Assessing assessment - progress or politics?
Assessment industry (awarding bodies) should refocus its activities on applied research and development in assessment methodology. The industry should produce assessment tools and professional development for teachers and a much slimmed down external verification service.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 1h 14min - 23 - How can we improve the quality of marking in our examinations and what does that mean for validity?
How can we improve the quality of mark schemes and their use? Ayesha will outline a taxonomy of the kinds of mark schemes that are currently used in examining in the UK and discuss what makes a good mark scheme, based on the best practice observed in the study quoted above.
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Tue, 10 May 2011 - 59min - 22 - The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students' outcomes, motivation and workload
This seminar will present the findings from a research project analysing students' performances and attitudes towards modularisation in two GCSE subjects.
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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 - 1h 07min - 21 - Resits in high-stakes examinations: the unusual case of A levels
Research findings suggest that, due to a lack of appreciation for the rationale behind the modular system, no control of resits and the highly competitive nature of selection by universities, the resit policy has produced some undesirable effects when it comes to actual practice in sixth-form education.
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 - 58min - 20 - Degrees of success: Progressing to Higher Education through vocational pathways
Widening participation in Higher Education crucially depends upon recruiting more young people from vocational pathways. But what sorts of opportunities do such learners access in Higher Education? Do these offer real opportunities for increasing social mobility and raising earnings? Is there any parity of esteem between academic and vocational progression routes? What are the challenges that students from more vocational programmes face when they enter Higher Education? How can we better support their learning and so improve success rates?
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 - 51min - 19 - Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency
Interpreting test performance (against the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) in this case) is at the heart of test validity. Thus if CEFR alignment is important for an exam, it should impact every relevant stage of design and administration. It cannot be a one-off exercise. Cambridge ESOL's approach will be presented as an illustration of this. We will also present the SurveyLang project coordinated by Cambridge ESOL, due to deliver the European Survey on Language Competences in 2011.
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Mon, 15 Nov 2010 - 1h 04min - 18 - Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability
This seminar will trace the history of investigations into inter-subject comparability in England, aiming to shed light on implicit and, occasionally, explicit statements of principle. It will analyse the emergence of early implicit conceptions and will illustrate how potential alternative conceptions have largely remained unrecognised, despite their potential utility.
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Wed, 10 Nov 2010 - 59min - 17 - Today's assessment jungle: a view from the regulator
Ofqual's regulation stretches from the early years through the key stages, GCSEs, A levels and diplomas to vocational and occupational qualifications. Ofqual monitors assessments, reviews standards and has a major programme focused on reliability. What has the regulator found in its regulatory work on the significant developments that 2010 has brought? How do the outcomes help Ofqual fulfil its mission to ensure that these assessments are valued and trusted by learners, users and the wider public?
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Wed, 03 Nov 2010 - 47min - 16 - Summative assessment by teachers: Designing a system that is fit for purpose
This presentation will review the design features to be taken into account if systems of assessment in which teacher judgement has a role are to be robust enough to meet the expectations of students, policy-makers and the wider public.
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Wed, 06 Oct 2010 - 45min - 15 - Revisioning assessment through a children’s rights approach
This seminar examines the implications of international human rights standards for assessment practice.
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Tue, 22 Jun 2010 - 57min - 14 - Looking at alternative approaches for assessing science practical skills
Good science courses provide plenty of opportunities for students to explore and develop their understanding of scientific ideas through practical work. It is often argued that, to encourage school practical work, the students’ practical skills need to be formally assessed by examination or coursework but is this really necessary and if so, what is the best way to do this?
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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 - 50min - 13 - Competitive admissions to Higher Education
UCAS applications to UK Higher Education institutions, the number of A-levels awarded an A grade and high achieving students exceeding the minimum entry requirements are all on the increase. In this context, the increasing numbers of well-qualified applicants presents institutions with a real challenge: how can they choose between applicants in a way that is consistent, fair, transparent and predictive of their future academic success?
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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 - 1h 11min - 12 - Reviewing the impact of changes in the assessment of GCSEs
New GCSE qualifications were introduced for first teaching in England, Wales and Northern Ireland September 2009. These new GCSEs included changes such as controlled assessment, unitisation and entry, aggregation and terminal rules. This seminar discusses
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Tue, 11 May 2010 - 59min - 11 - How effective are assessments of Citizenship in England?
Dr Mary Richardson, Centre for Beliefs, Rights and Values in Education, Roehampton University, considers the value of assessing Citizenship in the context of the findings from an empirical study conducted in secondary schools across England.
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 - 55min - 10 - Critical Thinking - its role, value and impact upon driving attainment
Seminar highlighting how an explicit focus on Critical Thinking can enhance the attainment of pupils of all backgrounds and abilities, following recent research. Importantly, the research showed that pupils who study Critical Thinking as a discrete subject at AS level tend to do better in their other A level subjects, whether they are taking sciences, languages or humanities.
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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 - 1h 57min - 9 - Formative assessment: A critical review
Guest speaker Randy Bennet looks at six inter-related issues in formative assessment (aka, ‘Assessment for Learning’). The issues concern the definition of formative assessment, the claims commonly made for its effectiveness, the limited attention given to domain considerations in its conceptualisation, the underrepresentation of measurement principles in that conceptualisation, the teacher-support demands formative assessment entails, and its place in the larger educational system.
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Tue, 23 Feb 2010 - 57min - 8 - Standards at A-Level: Sources of Evidence
Concerns that ‘standards are falling’ continue to dominate public debate. What are the sources of data to which we should turn to illuminate issues of standards, and what degree of confidence should we have in the different explanations of trends in standards?
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 - 1h 37min - 7 - What can we learn from cross-national comparisons of education and training?
Guest speaker Professor David Raffe explains how caution and care is essential in order to draw robust conclusions from international comparisons about different national education systems.
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 - 1h 02min
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