2. The future of assessment starts now (or very soon)
Martyn Ware Head of Assessment & QA
Graeme Clark Head of Digital Assessment Services

3. We are committed to a digital future
Scottish Government Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy
Principles and Guidance on Digital Evidence
Digital by Default and SQA Vision
Mixed economy of assessment
Scalable and sustainable

4. Improvement focus Assessments must be better
Increased engagement by learners and staff
Strategic commitment from the wider sector in support of digital approaches
Supporting assessment accessibility
Technology driving assessment change
Increased learner achievement

5. What does ‘now’ (or very soon) look like?
Enhancement, improvement and efficiency
Increasing number of digital assessment approaches and content being developed and delivered centrally and locally
Significant and visible impact on verification processes
Driven by customer demand

6. Impact on QA Review SQA processes and QA models
Principles and Guidance for Digital Evidence
Support new evidence formats and models
CPD for lecturers and verifiers
Evaluate impact and evidence improvement
Collaboration and partnership working

7. Assessment Futures –
Purpose and progress

8. Assessment Futures - Purpose
To develop a vision of the ways in which, over the medium to long term (5 years plus), SQA will develop and make use of new and innovative approaches to assessment.

9. Key question
‘What are the most appropriate ways and contexts for learners to demonstrate their competence in a way that provides SQA with the information it needs to certificate their ability?’

10. Assessment Futures – Research approach
DEFINE
Stakeholder
expert
Group
SYNTHESIS
DISCOVER
External Expert Group
Customer
engagement
Young peoples’
views
Environmental
Scanning
focused
general
Ad hoc internal
comms and
feedback
Yammer
Supplier
RESEARCH
MSc Data Science
Placement
TEDx Glasgow

13. Findings to date - overview
No coherent view of future of assessment
Focus is on today and tomorrow
Growing recognition of the scale of the challenges
Appetite to develop long term view
Suggestion of need to ‘reconceptualise’ assessment
This needs to be a collaborative task
Importance of teaching – learning – assessment ‘three legged race’

14. Key issues for the future of assessment – from TEDx and Expert Group
Recognising ‘21st century skills’ to give them currency
Importance of collaboration with industry
Need for qualifications to be more dynamic
Potential to digitise current and future assessments
Managing the impact of assessment on learners’ attitudes to learning

15. Key issues for the future of assessment –
from TEDx and Expert Group - 2
Involving young people in the design and development of assessments and assessment systems
Involving teachers in assessment judgements in ways that protect the accuracy and credibility of the judgements
Rethinking our approach to vocational assessment
Potential of data and data analytics

16. Next steps Review key issues and identify priorities for SQA
Scope trials of new approaches based on these priorities
Identify partners to support this work

17. How you can help? Read our Assessment Futures blog
Contribute to the
Let us know if you see opportunities for collaboration in trialling new approaches

18. Graeme Clark Martyn Ware Head of Digital Assessment Services @sqasolar
Head of Assessment Futures
@sqafutures