Past Seminars

Seminars – 2023-2024-2025

Assessment in a Changing World

Isabel Nisbet and Stuart Shaw

School Assessment. Policy and practice in external moderation: 13 international cases

Damian Murchan, Stuart Shaw & Evgenia Likhovtseva

Personalizing Assessment

Randy Bennett

Practitioners’ understanding of construct in the context of comparative judgement 

Kate Kelly

Should students be required to ‘master’ the vocational curriculum?
Paul Newton, Ofqual

Holistic Assessment
Irenka Suto and Tim Oates, Cambridge Assessment

Why were external national exams decided upon for 16 year olds in England and Wales? 
Andrew Watts, University of Cambridge

Discussion as Assessment
Mary Richardson (UCL IOE)

The Morality of Assessment
Isabel Nisbet (OUCEA) and Stuart Shaw (UCL IOE)

Critical Consciousness and Assessment 
Catarina Correia (UCL IOE)

Covid-related changes to assessment – an International comparative study
Nicky Rushton (Cambridge Assessment)

Possible Futures for the Educational Testing Industry
Steve Serici (University of Massachusetts)

Do we need marking anymore? Psychometrics, LLMs and Educational Assessment 
Alex Scharaschkin (AQA)

Hiding in plain sight? Test anxiety and the student experience

Dave Putwain (Liverpool John Moores), Carol Brown (Oxford Brookes) and Mary Richardson (UCL IOE)

Co-creating dialogic feedback cultures in higher education

Sam Passeport (No Borders Education)

Investigating impact: models, insights & possibilities

Hanan Khalifa

Socio-economic status, gender and achievement: the mediating role of expectancy and subjective task value

Carol Brown (Oxford Brookes University)

Examining Race and Assessment

Paul Campbell (University of Leicester)

Assessment Literacy

Chris DeLuca (Queen’s University, Ontario)

What people think of vocational?

Eleanor Andresson