The 8th e-Assessment Question: Ensuring Fitness for Purpose and Quality in e- Assessment
As e-Assessment, the use of computer based assessment, increasingly becomes part of the mainstream in the classroom and the workplace, the challenge for those developing, selecting and implementing e-Assessment solutions is to balance the desire for innovation and development with the need to maintain quality and reliability. This, the 8th annual e-Assessment Question Conference examines these issues and with the help of expert speakers and acknowledged practitioners ,and looks at the practical aspects of implementing valid, reliable and innovative e-Assessment
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Mar 17, 2010 12:00
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Mar 18, 2010 12:00 |
| Where | London |
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Day 1: Awarding Bodies and Assessment Providers. Sector Skills Councils. Central Government agencies and Local Authorities. Senior managers in Schools, Colleges and Training Providers. Education, Training and Qualification Policy Makers. System Providers. e-Learning and Vocational Qualification Specialists. Publishers. Human Resource Directors and Managers. Training and CPD Managers. |
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A broad range of learning, training and study is now assessed using technology. The scope and coverage grows each year.
The tools and techniques in the marketplace are becoming increasingly sophisticated and traditional doubts and barriers are being overcome.
- A number of large scale qualifications are using e-Assessment and considerable experience is being gained in education, training and industry.
- There is an increasing expectation by students, employees, assessors and government that the technology will be available to use in a secure, robust and fit for purpose manner.
- The e-Assessment Question has become the key event for discussing all the issues surrounding the practical application of computerised testing and assessment. The impressive attendance of the last seven years and the wide range of speakers and exhibitors have shown that there is real interest from the classroom to the workplace in the use of e-Assessment.
With Day One focusing on innovation and maintenance of standards and quality and Day Two looking at the issues of quality, compliance, transparency and accountability, the conference presents an opportunity to examine the key issues in e- Assessment development.
- Are you considering computer based testing or using e-portfolios?
- Do you want to find out about e-Assessment or want to see the latest developments?
- How robust, valid and reliable are e-Assessment solutions?
- Are you concerned about the risks and costs?
- Want to upgrade current e-Assessment technologies?
- How does regulation and government policy influence development?
- Involved with e-marking, e-Assessment or e-portfolios for the first time?
- Not sure of the impact of DDA on your e-Assessment portfolios or testing?
- What is best practice in e-Assessment?
- Want to discuss the issues with colleagues, Awarding Bodies etc.?
- Heard your Awarding Body is moving to e-Assessment?
- What are the implications for learners and teachers, not to mention examiners and managers?
FIND ANSWERS AT THE e-ASSESSMENT QUESTION 2010
