OUCEA won a competitive grant to investigate the effect of the International Baccalaureate’s Diploma Programme on the development of critical thinking. The twelve-month project entitled ‘The effect of the Diploma...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Professor Anil Kanjee from Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa is visiting OUCEA for the term. As co-investigator of the AFLA project Anil will be working with Principal Investigator Dr Therese Hopfenbeck and...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
On 15th May Prof Jo-Anne Baird shared the findings of her latest research on GCSE reforms in the Tes Podagogy podcast, which you can listen to here. In the 25 minute podcast episode...
Monday, May 20, 2019
A three-year joint research project between exam regulator Ofqual and OUCEA on the impact of modular and linear exam structures at GCSE UK culminated this week in the publication of...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
OUCEA welcomed back the students on the new Msc Educational Assessment course last week for the first core module; Assessment Issues and Practice – History, Policy, Standards, Validity, Reliability. This...
Friday, March 15, 2019
Applications for the MSc in Educational Assessment entry in 2019/20 are still being accepted. If you would like further information or to begin your application, please visit the Department of...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The first issue of Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice for 2019 is out now: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caie20/current Four published articles look at writing assessment from different perspectives with the focus on writing...
Monday, February 25, 2019
As part of the department’s 100th Anniversary celebrations a special public seminar series, Student Access to University, has been convened by Professor Simon Marginson and Professor Jo-Anne Baird. The series aims to...
Monday, January 14, 2019
A new article by Dr Kit Double from OUCEA has been published in the journal Metacognition and Learning. The abstract is below: Confidence ratings (CR) are often used to evaluate the metacognitive processes...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018