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24th Sept: Forget the Maths Gene: Ovidiu Bagdasar's Mission to Help Everyone Enjoy Maths (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Professor Ovidiu Bagdasar, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Derby and founder of the Numeracy Without Borders initiative. They discuss: How well-designed, randomised e-assessment with instant feedback helped Ovidiu tackle maths anxiety and lift pass rates on his module from 85% to 90%, and to 97% for students who completed the full programme Why falling maths performance in PISA may be driven not only by COVID disruption but by teaching
24th Sept - Global Assessment News Update (opens the original)
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Visit the full collection: https://testcommunity.network/collections/23rd-september-weekly-global-update This week's collection is dominated by one question: how should assessment respond to AI? Maxinity argues that medical exams must shift from recall to clinical reasoning, while Al Jazeera explores evidence that faster, AI-assisted homework may be linked to poorer exam results. In England, two reports led by Sir Anthony Seldon, covered by BBC News and Schools Week, call for a national AI frame
17th Sept: From High-Stakes to Formative: Malaysia's Assessment Balancing Act (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Dr Shafiza Mohamed, Exams Officer and Head of Assessment Innovations at the Malaysian Examinations Council (MEC). They discuss: Why Malaysia is shifting from high-stakes summative examinations towards more formative, teacher-led assessment — and how parents and society are responding to that change How AI and digital literacy skills need to be woven into assessment itself, and whether chatbots could one day feature in high-stakes exams The challenge
17th Sept - Global Assessment News Update (opens the original)
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Full collection details here: https://testcommunity.network/collections/17th-september-weekly-global-news-update This week's collection brings together 21 articles from across the global assessment landscape, covering AI's growing impact on education and examinations, test security challenges posed by smart glasses, digital assessment innovation, and the evolving conversation around equity and fairness in testing. From GPT-6 acing Korea's college entrance exam to UNESCO's global consultation on
10th Sept: Can Telemetry Replace the Exam? Jim Henderson on Assessing IT Skills in the Flow of Work (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Jim Henderson, owner of Validify Consulting and a Seattle-based specialist who helps IT companies build high-stakes certification programmes. With around twenty years in assessment — and a career in IT before that — Jim makes the case for assessing competence in the flow of work. They discuss: Why a knowledge test can only tell you so much about an IT professional, and how reading the telemetry people generate as they work proves they can actually d
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