1. SCROLLA Assessment Futures Event Alastair Walker 16 June 2004

2. Headlines CURRICULUM – sample teaching plans with built-in assessment opportunities ASSESSMENT – developing the “assessment for learning” virtuous cycle. EXAMINATIONS – putting in to practice lessons learned from the Paperless Exam Project.

3. Aims To create an integrated learning management system from planning to reporting. To match computer use in the classroom to computer use in the exam room

4. Curriculum CCEA is devising sample teaching plans to accompany a changed statutory curriculum Will be provided online with accompanying templates to facilitate teachers’ own planning through to individual lesson plans Will include identification of assessment possibilities as part of the planning process

5. Assessment (1) Banks of online assessment materials being created. Some computer marked, some teacher assessed Includes “play-back” facility Trialling adaptive assessment And exemplar libraries Building a recording system with portfolio capability

6. Assessment (2) Potential to link to online moderation systems Developing reporting facility linked to records Recording system must allow input from a number of teachers and learners And enable the cross-curricular assessment of skills

7. Examinations Two phases of the Paperless Examinations Project, with Edexcel Using technology to include material not possible on paper Basic Skills Tests now available online Looking at innovative approaches to assessment of skills A new subject now possible – Moving Images (AS) currently under pilot. And a computer-based GCSE ICT

8. Where Now? Roll out of the Northern Ireland wide area network by C2k soon to be completed. Uniform hardware and software provision makes Northern Ireland unique Marvellous opportunity to become the leading edge area for developing the real added value potential of E-assessment.