See you: 18th/19th March 2009 for the seventh
e-Assessment Question

ASSESSMENT TOMORROW

The e-Assessment
Question 2003 to
2009 and on

‘Using ICT  to measure skills, understanding and knowledge’

Annual Conference and Exhibition

‘A great success’  ‘Invaluable’  ‘... will become the key e-assessment event’
First Annual Conference and Exhibition, 27th and 28th Feb. 2003, London
‘great conference’   ‘we will be back next year’ Second Annual Conference and Exhibition,4th and 5th March 2004, London
‘excellent’’   ‘appropriately full and varied’ Third Annual Conference and Exhibition, 3rd and 4th March 2005, London
’I Iook forward to next year’ Fourth Annual Conference and Exhibition, 2nd and 3rd March 2006, London
‘...‘pitched at just the right level for me and certainly took a lot away from it.. Many thanks for organising such a good event’ Fifth annual Conference and Exhibition 8th and 9th MArch 2007

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Day One - Thursday March 4th 2004

Objective : To review some of the current developments in computer based testing and assessment, and to examine the impact of these systems on e-Learning, computer assisted training and teaching, continuing professional development and blended learning

Day Two - Friday March 5th 2004

Objective : To examine the issues involved with the implementation and full-scale roll-out of e-Assessment systems and their impact on learners, candidates and centres and to look forward to some for the exciting and ground-breaking developments underway in e-Assessment.

9.30am to 10.00am : Registration, conference welcome and coffee

10.00 am to 10.10 am : Chair’s address and introduction, Alistair Walker, Director, Curriculum and Education Authority, Northern Ireland

Session One : Recent Developments in e-Assessment

• 10.10 am The Regulator’s Perspective, Martin Ripley and Chris Jones, QCA (TBC)
• 10.40 am Developments in Scotland, Martyn Ware, Business Manager, SQA

11.10 to 11.20 Coffee

Papers in two streams including

11.20 to 1.15pm Stream A

• 11.20 am Paperless Exams Project, Roger McCune, Accreditation Manager, CEA
• 11.50 am High Stakes Qualification, Graham Yule, Development Manager, NCC Education
• 12.20 pm Carolyn Adams, AQA


11.20 to 1.15pm Stream B

• How to limit your exposure and extend your items’ shelf life through the use of randomisation, rolling session led by Graham Divers of EQL

1.15pm to 2 pm Lunch and networking opportunities

Session Two : Impact on learning, teaching and training

• 2.00 pm : Using ICT to discover requirements, Stephen Citron, Director, Informatololgy
• 2.30 pm : The use of TRIADS and its impact on learning, Prof. Don Mackenzie, Centre for Interactive Assessment Development, University of Derby

3.00 pm to 3.15 pm Tea

• 3.15 pm : Bridging the chasm: achieving the potential of e-Learning whilst retaining confidence in assessment, Dr. Robert Harding, Director of the "Interactive Technologies in Assessment and Learning" (ITAL) Unit, UCLES
• 3.45 pm : e-Assessment and e-Learning Dr Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, Director, e-Strategy & Learning, City and Guilds

4.15 pm Q&A Panel Session, Review and Closing remarks from Chair
 

During the afternoon PaperFree Systems will be leading a session in the Portland Suite on the Use of e-Portfolios and Vocational e-Assessment
 

9.30am to 10.00am : Registration, conference welcome and coffee

10.00 am to 10.10 am : Chair’s address and introduction, Murrey Butcher, Director, City and Guilds

Session One : Going Live and the Implementation of e-Assessment

• 10.10 am Experience Implementing a fully integrated Assessment and Qualification System, Peter Newman, Chief Executive, Hamlet
• 10.40 am Wot - no paper? E-marking internationally, Andrew Bollington and Graeme Donnan, International Baccalaureate Organisation
  11.10 to 11.20 Coffee

Papers in two streams including
11.20 to 1.15pm Stream A

• IT- based delivery systems for basic and key skills levels 1 and 2 tests, Alika Gupta, Project Manager, QCA and Dr Michael Kingdon, Educational Consultant
• The Challenge of implementing e-Assessment, Denis Saunders Calibrand
• Authoring and content management of Testbanks, Dr. Christian Horn, LIONET

11.20 to 1.15pm Stream B

• Testing innovations - an awarding body perspective, Paul Humphries, Edexcel
• High volume, High Stakes: Preparing for on screen national testing, QCA and RM
• Test Centre Management - The Challenges and Opprtunities: Suzana Lopes and Patrick Coates, Promissor
  
  1.15pm to 2 pm Lunch and networking opportunities

Session Two : Innovation and Future Developments

• Papers presented in Stream One
• 2.00 pm : The Development of Computer Based Testing, Martyn Leese, Managing Director, Pearson Assessments and Testing
• 2.30 pm Progress with e-Assessment, John Winkley, BTL
• Papers presented in Stream Two
• 2.00 pm : Computerised Marking and Computer Assisted Moderation of Short Answer Free Text Responses, Tom Mitchell, IAT
• 2.30 pm : Free Text and Automated Marking of Essays James Christie, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

3.00 pm to 3.15 pm Tea

• 3.15 pm : Assessing Vocational Qualifications, Stirling Wood, Programme Leader, QCA
• 3.45 pm : Future Developments in e-Assessment, Thomson Prometric
• 4.15 pm Q&A Panel Session, Review and Closing remarks from Chair

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