Elizabeth Ford

Name:	Elizabeth Ford
Affiliation:	Cambridge Assessment
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Last login:	Wed Apr 03 14:10:51 +0000 2013

Public lists managed by Elizabeth Ford

• Assessment Practice
• Assessment Principles
• Current Issues in Assessment

Talks given by Elizabeth Ford

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Talks organised by Elizabeth Ford

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• Cambridge Assessment Network: Alternatives to written examinations
• What’s going on with students taking GCSEs early? Is getting a GCSE or two in Year 9 or 10 a good thing?
• Plagiarism in Higher Education: is there a postcode lottery?
• Measuring ‘quality’ in early education – determining whether pre-schools can support children to become better learners
• Reliability and validity
• Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study
• Assessment for Higher Education entry: admissions testing
• Is assessing an art or a science?
• Question Writing
• How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications?
• Equating and item banking with the Rasch model
• Introduction to Rasch
• Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency
• Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement
• Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability
• Today’s assessment jungle: a view from the regulator
• Grading
• Can the public have confidence in national assessments?
• The validation of general qualifications
• Managing and implementing effective internal assessments
• Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications?
• Competitive admissions to Higher Education – how do institutions differentiate between applicants?
• Reliability and validity
• What is the point of public systems of assessment?