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ChatGPT will never know enough for marking educational assessments

While free AI tools like ChatGPT promise a shortcut for marking, relying on them risks undermining the very standards assessment is meant to uphold

Exams disadvantage the anxious and fail to prepare the crammers

Exams have long been the currency of education but in professional pathways such as HNDs this model feels increasingly outdated

Derby College Group DIRT and TOES: A Story of Enhanced Learning and Reduced Workload

“Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement” – Hattie and Timperley 2007. This powerful statement served as the cornerstone of a transformative project undertaken by Derby College Group and funded by the Skills and Education Group Foundation Grant.

More targeted interventions are key to GCSE resit success

A one-year ‘GCSE step’ course would better support those resit students that are furthest behind

AI can pass almost all level 3 assessments, study finds

OU recommends that institutions should focus on question design rather than detecting AI misuse

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t be drinking the digital Kool-Aid I’m always telling my teenage children to get off their phones. Yet, however determined I might be that they actually talk in person to one another and their friends, I also […]

The Future of Assessment

A free FE Week and Schools Week supplement in partnership with NCFE, diving into assessment reform

The FE Week Podcast: The Tory Party Conference, Lords ‘Peer Review’ the Skills Bill and the future of assessment

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by exams board guru Kirstie Donnelly and policy director Simon Ashworth

IfA to charge assessment organisations for quality assurance

The Institute for Apprenticeships will charge apprenticeship assessment organisations for external quality assurance of new standards – despite Ofqual keeping the service free. Speaking during a webinar on Monday (January 6), Peter Lauener, shadow chief executive of the IfA, said that it was acceptable for the Institute to charge for the service because “the principle of […]