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The Cambridge Assessment Network delivers a programme of activities ranging from seminars about innovation in education and assessment to training programmes for people working in assessment.

Our examining boards each have a full calendar of events throughout the year and information relating to these can be obtained from their individual websites: OCR, CIE and Cambridge ESOL.

Events List


Name of Event Type of Event
Item and test evaluation (Basics of Assessment)
Date: 4 Sep 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge

A discussion of the uses of data which is available at the level of the whole test and the individual item.
Course
Singapore's success story - the Cambridge Connection (Cambridge Assessment 150th anniversary: who do we think we are?)
Date: 4 Sep 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge

This talk will look at the contribution of Cambridge secondary examinations to education in Singapore.
Seminar
IAEA 2008 Conference
Date: 7 Sep 2008 - 12 Sep 2008   Venue: Robinson College, Cambridge, UK

The conference will be held from 7-12 September 2008. The theme is Re-interpreting Assessment: Society, Measurement and Meaning. The keynote speakers will be Professor Robert J Mislevy, University of Maryland, and Professor Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education - University of London.
Conference
The next big thing in Europe - recognition of prior learning (Assessment Issues)
Date: 17 Sep 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge

Strongly contrasting mechanisms for facilitating recognition in learning exist across Europe. While the European Qualifications Framework, the Bologna and Lisbon agreements are top-down system-level approaches to supporting movement of workers and cross-country recognition of learning, other 'bottom-up' approaches are being encouraged. The presentation will explore the potential of these approaches and whether they pose an alternative to 'traditional' forms of certification.
Seminar
Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Assessment
Date: 20 Sep 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge

This innovative course is offered by the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education with Cambridge Assessment, one of the world's largest assessment agencies and a department of the University of Cambridge. Led by tutors who are specialists in assessment, the course provides an introduction to educational assessment using topic and relevant examples.
Course
From instrumental compliance to genuine engagement: insights from research in formative assessment in further and adult education (FNDEA)
Date: 2 Oct 2008   Venue: Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge

Kathryn Ecclestone will talk about her latest research on the uses of assessment in vocational and other settings for adult learners.
Seminar
Reliability and validity (Basics of Assessment)
Date: 2 Oct 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge

This will provide plenty of opportunity for group discussion of the philosophical issues which arise from the notions of reliability and validity.
Course
Using assessment data to benefit the learner: workshop for teachers
Date: 3 Oct 2008   Venue: New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge

How can we use assessment data to help students make the best progress? How does your school manage and exploit the assessment data that is around? Does assessment data help or hinder? The Cambridge Assessment Network invites middle managers in secondary schools with an interest in assessment to a one-day workshop to explore these issues.
Seminar
The history of examining vocational skills by the RSA (Cambridge Assessment 150th anniversary: Who do we think we are?)
Date: 15 Oct 2008   Venue: OCR, Progress House, Coventry

This seminar will describe in broad terms the development of vocational assessments in England and Wales, and colleagues from Cambridge Assessment who remember working with the RSA will give us the human side of this story.
Seminar
Why are we doing this in English? (New Horizons)
Date: 16 Oct 2008   Venue: Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge

This presentation will take as its focus the motives and historical/cultural context for taking examinations in the medium of English.
Seminar
Validity: does the assessment 'do what it says on the tin'? (Assessment Topics)
Date: 20 Oct 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge

The concept of validity has been broadened in the last fifteen years and has become the key issue for those who want to create appropriate assessments. This seminar will look at different facets of validity - like face, content and construct validity - and will focus particularly on the adequacy of our interpretations and actions based on test scores.
Course
Equating (Basics of Assessment)
Date: 6 Nov 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge

Test equating is an important component in assuring the maintenance of standards and comparability of tests.
Course
Assessment for Learning: One-day conference for teachers
Date: 14 Nov 2008   Venue: New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge

Assessment for Learning (classroom-based assessment which is designed to improve students' learning) continues to be a topic of great interest and discussion. This one-day conference for teachers is designed for all staff interested in Assessment for Learning, especially assessment leaders.
Conference
Grades and levels - misclassification, error and educational mistreatment (Assessment Issues)
Date: 17 Nov 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge

This presentation will explore the rationale for grades and levels, and examine the place which grades and levels should have in modern qualifications systems.
Seminar
Psychometric testing for job selection (New Horizons)
Date: 20 Nov 2008   Venue: Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge

This seminar will introduce some of the ways psychometric principles are used in the employment arena. It will give an opportunity for the audience both to understand the use of psychometric tests better and to discuss the implications of using them.
Seminar
Standard setting by expert judgement (Basics of Assessment)
Date: 4 Dec 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge

A look at a fundamental issue in assessment. Topics covered will include standard setting - concepts and issues; and methods of standard setting (Angoff methods, bookmark methods, rank-ordering method, Award meetings).
Course
Recognising the error of our ways (Forum for New Developments in Educational Assessment)
Date: 10 Dec 2008   Venue: Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge

This seminar will explore the concept of 'error' as it relates to large-scale educational assessments, such as national tests or public examinations.
Seminar
Should the public trust national assessments? (Assessment Topics)
Date: 15 Dec 2008   Venue: Cambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge

This seminar raises the issue of reliability and considers it in the light of present attitutdes in society. Materials from the first Cambridge Assessment Conference will be shown and discussed.
Course

Highlight - Upcoming Event

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IAEA 2008 Conference

  7 Sep 2008

Highlight - Past Event

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Purposes of educational testing (Assessment Issues)

  7 Jul 2008