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President Roundtable Seminar Series: Equitable, Reliable High Stakes Assessment: a possible dream?

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Lead: Louise Hayward, Professor, University of Glasgow

 

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High stakes qualifications matter. They matter to students, parents/carers, teachers, employers, schools, universities and colleges, policy makers and politicians. Yet, few education systems internationally, can be confident that this crucial part of their system serves all young people well. Around the world COVID has disrupted education and challenged the ‘taken as granted’, including high stakes assessment systems, commonly in the form of examinations. This seminar explores the possibilities arising from the disruption to high stakes assessment systems that may open opportunities to design and develop new approaches to high stakes assessment that are more equitable and more reliable. What insights from research might inform this debate? How might we conceptualise fairness? How might ideas of standards and rigour be theorised to serve the rights of all learners? What might we learn from practice internationally?

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Lead

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Louise Hayward, Professor

Director of UGEAN at University of Glasgow

Louise Hayward is Professor of Educational Assessment and Innovation at the University of Glasgow. She was a member of the internationally renowned Assessment Reform Group and is currently a member of the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy...

Chair

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Dominic Wyse, Professor

Professor of Early Childhood & Primary Education at University College London

Dominic has made a leading contribution to research on curriculum and pedagogy, including national curricula, for more than 25 years. He has led multiple research projects and has published many books and research papers. Dominic’s main...

Speakers

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Jo-Anne Baird, Professor

Professor of Educational Assessment at Oxford University

Jo-Anne Baird is Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. She has been Head of the Department of Education at Oxford, Standing Adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee, a member of Ofqual’s Standing...

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Stuart Shaw, Mr

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Stuart has worked for international awarding bodies for over 20 years. From 2007 to 2021, he was Head of Research at Cambridge Assessment International Education. Stuart is particularly interested in demonstrating how educational and...

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Isabel Nisbet, Ms

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Isabel Nisbet’s academic background is in philosophy, and her career has been in government and regulation, including the regulation of medicine, postgraduate medical education and educational assessment. She was the first CEO of Ofqual, the...

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Gordon Stobart, Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Professor of Education at University College London

Gordon Stobart is Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University College London and an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University. Having worked as a secondary school teacher and an educational psychologist, he spent...

Respondents

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Gemma Moss, Professor

Professor of Literacy at University College London

Gemma Moss is Professor of Literacy at UCL Institute of Education. As Director of the ESRC Education Research Programme (2021-26) she is exploring new ways of working in partnership across the boundaries between education research, policy, and...

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Tom Anderson, Mr

Head of Research at Qualifications Wales

Tom Anderson is Head of Research and Statistics at Qualifications Wales, the independent regulator of non-degree qualifications in Wales. He oversees a team of researchers and statisticians that support policy and regulatory colleagues in...

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Dennis Opposs

Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation

Dennis Opposs works at the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual). Ofqual is the examinations regulator in England, and his current post is Standards Chair. He acts as an in-house expert on qualifications, standards and...

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Robin Bevan, Dr

Headteacher at National Education Union

Robin Bevan is Headteacher at Southend High School for Boys – an ‘outstandingly successful’ school – appointed in September 2007. Robin served as National President (2020/21) of the National Education Union: Europe’s largest education...

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Martyn Ware

Head of Policy and Analysis at Scottish Qualifications Authority

Martyn Ware is Head of Policy and Analysis at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). In previous roles with SQA Martyn has led its work on e-assessment, managed a diverse portfolios of qualifications, including general and vocational...

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Ken Thomson OBE, Dr

Principal and Chief Executive at Forth Valley College

Dr Ken Thomson joined Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education in 1994 following eight years in environmental education. He became Principal and Chief Executive of Forth Valley College in 2013 having previously held posts of Depute...

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Nansi Ellis, Ms

Assistant General Secretary at National Education Union

Nansi Ellis is assistant general secretary for the National Education Union, with responsibility for education policy and research. Nansi began her teaching career as a primary teacher in a bilingual school in west Wales, and then moved to London...

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Andrea Bradley

Assistant General Secretary at Educational Institute of Scotland

Andrea Bradley is Assistant General Secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), Scotland’s largest teacher trade union and professional association. With lead responsibility for Education and Equality matters within the EIS, and...

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