Blogs by The Assessment Network

Brooke Wyatt, Senior Manager of Assessment Training is the newest member of the Assessment Network team. Here she tells us about her experience working in assessment, what she loves about her work, and how as student, teacher and assessment manager, her perspective of assessment has many different angles.

In this blog, Dr Simon Child, Head of Assessment Training at Cambridge Assessment Network and Course Co-Director for the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment (PGCA) discusses how knowledge, authority and confidence in assessment practice can equip practitioners for the future.

Last month a Cambridge Assessment Network seminar heard from inspirational naturist and campaigner Mary Colwell about the reasoning behind the her campaign for a Natural History GCSE and the journey towards the recent proposal to the Department for Education.

In this blog explore what is meant by curriculum coherence, and examine possible connections between curriculum coherence and learner attainment.

Many students will be going through a mixture of emotions, including feelings of stress and anxiety around how their grades will be awarded this summer and how this will impact their future. Professor David Putwain offers practical tips on how to reduce and manage anxiety that will be useful for students, parents and their teachers, this year and beyond.

Simon Child, Head of Assessment Training at Cambridge Assessment Network, believes the time is right for robust assessment training that empowers teachers to contribute to the debate about the future of assessment. In this blog, from Laura Wheatman-Hill at TES, he explains that the current situation, and indeed the past year is shedding light on the need for change.

It is not possible to discuss one aspect of an education system without considering the potential implications for other parts. We have found a way of navigating these debates and joining the dots.

Sarah Hughes, Senior Research Manager, OCR and Sanjay Mistry, Head of On-Screen Research, Cambridge International, delivered a workshop for Cambridge Assessment Network focusing on the considerations of embarking on e-assessment and lessons learnt. In this blog, Sanjay outlines some of the key areas that the workshop covered.

In November 2020 Cambridge Assessment Network hosted Professor Nuno Crato, Portugal’s Minister of Education and Science from 2011-2015, to speak at their first online thought leadership seminar on Portugal's success in curriculum and educational reform. Here he answers some audience questions.

Aaron Mortlock, Business Development Manager for Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing, gives his account of how Cambridge Assessment Network's practitioner workshops have improved his assessment knowledge and impacted his day to day practice.