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35. Good Cop, Bad Cop

Presentation:  17 March 2022

Delivered to the  Centre for Islamic Finance conference.

Subjects covered include:  the detection and prevention of exam malpractice, including a toolkit  to aid exam owners.

34. Changes to Invigilation (Proctoring) and How to Navigate Them

Presentation: 4 November 2020

Delivered to the Beyond Multiple Choice conference.

Subjects covered include: vendor market size, market velocity, improving user experience with an exemplar, finishing with six takeaways on current evidence and practice.

33.  Unconscious Bias in Assessment

Webinar: Summer 2020

An exploration of unconscious bias, from an assessment perspective.

Areas of test design, test delivery, and service are covered for an invited audience of assessment professionals.

Thanks to TPP Recruitment for the invitation.

32.  Boom & Bust - English Language Testing (ELT)

Presentation: 25 June 2020

A two -part presentation for the E-Assessment Question.

The 'bust' details an investigation into ELT malpractice.

The  'boom' is a sprint through six sectors that use ELT.

30. Use of Digital Badges

Webinar: 14 June 2017

The webinar runs through the fundamentals of open badges. There's also a short case study from a US customer.

Company: eCom

29. Developing & Deploying Digital Apprenticeship Solutions

Leeds, England: 18 May 2017

We crafted an apprenticeship learning and assessment SaaS package called eNetApprentice, which can be bought direct from the UK goverment G-Cloud procurement framework. 

This presentation was the launch. 

Company: eCom

28. Integrated Digital Learning & Assessment

London, England: 22 March 2017

The core of the presentation was the slogan "Learners expect an authentic digital experience".

I talked about the comparison between the Old World learning ways of spreadsheets and email, and the New World of early intervention indicators and identity data to understand learner competence. 

Company: eCom

27. Using Technology for Apprenticeship Delivery

Edinburgh, Scotland: 15 March 2017

Delivered to an audience including Scotland's Skills Minister, I introduced the Assessment Calculator and other thoughts on efficency gains within apprenticeship delivery.

Company: eCom

26. Deploying eLearning & eAssessment within Apprenticeships

Leeds, England: 17 November 2016

The delivery of apprenticeship programmes in England had taken a different route to that performed in Scotland.

I looked at the main differences in how Scotland's apprenticeships are delivered and also called out '10 apprenticeship EdTech deployments you can have today'.

Company: eCom

25. Apprenticeship differences - technology implications

Edinburgh, Scotland: 9 November 2016 

Delivered to the Federation of Awarding Bodies Scotland branch, we looked at the differences between the apprenticeship systems in Scotland and England, and looking at the technology implications.

Company: eCom

24. Job Ready Apprentices

Coventry, England: 21 October 2016

At the Federation of Awarding Bodies annual conference, I shared our experiences of delivering apprentice assessment with a Scotland-based customer.

The assessment of apprentices in England on programmes without an approved assessment plan was a hot topic at this particular time.

Company: eCom

23. Experiences in eAssessment Adoption

Newcastle, England: 22 January 2016

The Association of International Accountants (AIA), asked Gavin Busutill-Reynaud and I to co-present on eAssessment good practice at their examiners' conference.

We took a variety of examples of good practice from across the world - although our point on AIA being 'late to the eAssessment party' may not have been wholly welcome!

Company: eAssessment Association

22. Apprenticeship Assessment

Coventry, England: 23 October 2015

Delivered as a breakfast seminar to the Federation of Awarding Bodies annual conference, this presentation focuses on portfolio and evidence-based assessment.

Company: Digital Assess

21. Impact of eAssessment in UK schools

London, England: 12 October 2015

My brief was for a polemic speech, with compelling statistics on how the UK school assessment system could be improved with eAssessment. 

This is my speech at the Westminster Education Forum - no slides.

Company: eAssessment Association

20. Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ)

Dublin, Ireland: 24 September 2015

ACJ is a difficult concept for a mainstream audience, compared to regular marking of exam scripts. This presentation, to an international audience at ATP Europe, focused on the enhanced reliability of ACJ, using a round-robin analogy.

Company: Digital Assess

19. eAssessment in Vocational & Professional Qualifications

Leeds, England: 18 November 2013

This presentation reflected on the emerging codified discipline of Service Transition, and what eAssessment users should expect when they move or integrate their operational services.

Company: Calibrand

18. Graduate Employability with on-screen qualifications and exams

Dundee, Scotland: 23 August 2013

Case study of a partnership with an accountancy software company to create a qualification delivered entirely on-line.

Company: Calibrand

17. Measuring eAssessment Success

London, England: 20 March 2013

My brief was to look at what was holding back eAssessment success. The presentation looks at the 'heroes and villians' of the sector, noting the emergence of integrators, obfuscation and software legacy/ twilighting issues.

Company: Calibrand

16. Extending the uptake and broadening the acceptability of e-Assessment

London, England: 21 March 2012

Post-recession, this presentation reflected on the loss of eAssessment innovation, how to broaden acceptability, and the new catalysts for extending eAssessment uptake.

Company: eAssessment Association

15. Life in the UK - High-stakes summative exam programme

Prague, Czech Republic: 29 September 2011

Co-delivered with the customer, we looked at how the UK Citizenship test has been delivered with eAssessment; how Citizenship tests are delivered in other countries; and lessons learned for government, suppliers and test takers.

Company: Calibrand

14. Importance of e-assessment to workplace learning 

London, England: 30 March 2011

Case study on the Diploma in Professional Advice, delivered entirely on-line using the peripatetic HI-STAK delivery solution.

Company: Calibrand

13. Myth and Reality of a Professional Certification

Barcelona, Spain: 29 September 2010

This was presenting and explaining the Retail Distribution Review qualification to an international audience at ATP Europe.

Company: Calibrand

12. Life in the UK test

London, England: 18 March 2010

A tri-partite presentation with both the UK government policy and customer operational leads for the Life in the UK Citizenship test. 

Company: Calibrand

11. Dual-factor authentication to prevent exam malpractice

Shrivenham, England: 12 November 2009 

Similiar to the Brussels presentation in October 2009, this was for a UK audience and a little more high-level, given the emerging solutions we discussed.

Company: Calibrand

10. Dual-factor authentication to prevent malpractice

Brussels, Belgium: 1 October 2009

This presentation to an international audience at ATP Europe supported a live demonstration of dual-factor authentication, a prototype of remote invigilation and USB security devices for use in summative exam situations.

Company: Calibrand

9. European Indigenous Computer-Based Testing

Dallas, USA: 5 March 2008

Presenting to an international audience at ATP's main conference in the USA, I talked about the differences for indigenous European exam and learning programmes, such as peripatetic exam programmes.

Company: Prometric

8. eAssessment - validating learning & training

Moscow, Russia: 23 May 2007

An English language presentation to a Russian audience on the benefits of eAssessment, focusing on IT and professional education.

Company: Prometric

7. Changing CBT needs 2005 - 2007

Amsterdam, Netherlands: 19 April 2007

I tailored the UK eAssessment research into a high-level English-language presentation for a Dutch audience. 

Company: Prometric

6. e-Assessment goes mainstream

London, England: 8 March 2007

I took the findings from the e-Skills UK research with data from the IT education sector to consider the impact of eAssessment on workforce assessment. 

Company: Prometric

5. e-Assessment Acceptance & Usage

Loughborough, England: 4 July 2006

I returned to Loughborough to present the research follow-up 'Acceptance & Usage' to show the changes since 2005.

Company: Prometric

4. e-Assessment Acceptance & Usage

London, England: 2 March 2006

I presented the follow-up 2006 'Acceptance & Usage' research, and reflected on the awarding body sector's feelings towards the regulator's 2009 target for eAssessment deployment.

Short answer: we're still waiting! 

Company: Prometric

3. The Science & Art of Exam Development

London, England: 14 February 2006

We brought together regulators, awarding organisations and others with an interest in exam design for a presentation on psychometrics. I was grateful to my USA colleagues in building this slide deck.

Company: Prometric

2. Changes in IT Training and Assessment

London, England: 16 November 2005

A high-level presentation to an international IT education cohort regarding the burgeoning use of eLearning and eAssessment.

Company: Prometric

1. Drivers and Barriers for the adoption of Computer Assisted Assessment

Loughborough, England: 5 July 2005

I'd performed a few presentations prior to 2005, but this is the earliest one I could locate the slides for! This launched the 'Drivers & Barriers' research we commissioned earlier in the year.

Company: Prometric