AEA 2021 – Dublin
Welcome
Dear Members of AEA-Europe, I am delighted to welcome you to our online Festival 2020!
It is with great sadness that I am not able to welcome you all, in person, at this time of year to Dun Laoghaire/Dublin for our Annual Conference 2020. However, as we all know, it has been a strange and unprecedented year but I have every confidence that we will meet face-to-face yet again in 2021! In the meantime, I am delighted to welcome you to our online Festival instead. This event will allow us to meet together (albeit virtually) at our usual time of year and to share and interact with the work of the association, our special interest groups, guest speakers and our doctoral student members. It means we are also able to have our Annual General Assembly that will enable us to sign off the work of the year, the financial accounts and the changeover of Council Members – all important activities to keep the work of the Association progressing and developing.
This was my last year as President, and notwithstanding the pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 conference, my time as president has been extremely rewarding and enjoyable. Given how members have stepped up to make sure this Festival is a great success, I know that we will continue to prosper and that I will be leaving the Association in good hands! I have every confidence that over the next few years the Association will continue to grow, to bring forth new ideas and develop the culture of educational assessment in Europe – and getting together through this online Festival is a great testament to that!
I hope you enjoy the sessions and the online interaction with colleagues and I wish you a successful Festival!
With best wishes,
Jannette Elwood
President: AEA-Europe
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Programme
Wednesday, 4th of November 2020
Times below are in the Central European Timezone
10:00 – 10:15
Official Opening
President
Jannette Elwood
Room: Belfast
10:30 – 11:00
Introduction to AEA
10mins – Describing the history, scope, aims and future of AEA
20 mins – Q & A Session
Delivered by Council
Alex Scharaschkin
Room: Belfast
11:00 – 12:00
Guest Speaker
Professor Gavin Brown
Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Title: Technology is not the answer: An assessor’s response to online digital schooling
Room: Belfast
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 16:30
Assessment Cultures SIG
Focus: How did your education and assessment system react to the effects of Covid19?
13:30
Introduction
Andrew Watts
Room: Belfast
13:40
Speaker Sessions
Chairs: Andrew Watts and Eleanor Andressen
Room: Belfast
Sverre Tveit
Understanding Assessment Cultures
The meaning of ‘assessment cultures’ in educational research, policy and practice
Abstract
Lise Vikan Sandvik
Assessment in the Time of Corona
Abstract
George MacBride
Changing and/or maintaining assessment cultures? opportunities and challenges in bleak times
Abstract
Damian Murchan
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Understanding Leaving Certificate adaptations in Ireland as a result of COVID-19.
Abstract
15:00
Group Discussions
Room: Umea
15:25
Panel Discussion
Chairs: Andrew Watts and Eleanor Andressen
Panelists: Sverre Tveit, George MacBride, Damian Murchan, Stuart Shaw
Room: Belfast
16:10
Summarising Comments
Isabel Nisbet
Room: Belfast
16:20
The Future of the SIG
Andrew Watts
Room: Belfast
Thursday, 5th of November 2020
Times below are in the Central European Timezone
10:00 – 10:30
Introduction to AEA
10 mins – Describing the history, scope, aims and future of AEA
20 mins – Q & A Session
Delivered by Council – Cor Sluijter
Room: Belfast
10:30 – 11:00
Publications Committee Event
Debbie Chetcuti
Title: The Publications Committee: Enhancing AEAE Communications
Room: Umea
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00
Scientific Programme Committee Event
Stuart Shaw, Elisa de Padua, Nico Dieteren
Title: Life and Times of the Scientific Programme Committee: the work and remit of the SPC
Room: Umea
12:00 – 12:30
Professional Development Committee Event
Rolf Vegar Olsen
Title: Presentation of the AEA-Europe accreditation scheme: Criteria, how to apply and Q&A
Room: Umea
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
Parallel Sessions
14:00 – 16:30
E-Assessment SIG Workshop
Focus: What did we learn about eAssessment during COVID-19?
14:00 – 14:05
Introduction
Mary Richardson
Room: Belfast
14:05 – 15:00
Speaker Sessions
Chairs: Mary Richardson and Caroline Jongkamp
Room: Belfast
Anja Sisarica (Strategic Relations Manager, Inspera)
What the pandemic taught us about ensuring assessment integrity
Abstract
Graham Hudson (Managing Director, GA Partnership)
How to buy e-assessment services with certainty and clarity
Abstract
David Haggie (Managing Director, Grademaker)
Using technology to deliver resilience and innovation in exam authoring during Covid-19
Abstract
Lydia May Townsend (Post graduate student, UCL)
Finding the funds: Poverty as a barrier to effective e-assessment in higher education during Covid-19
Abstract
Nicola Mellor (Qualifications Director, Chartered Insurance Institute)
The dark side of the mouse: Technical preparedness, resilience and exam stress in remotely invigilated assessment
Abstract
Irene Custodio and Grace Grima (Principal Researcher and Director of Research, Pearson UK)
Changing plans: How moving from face-to-face to remote scoring in the UK PISA Field Trial 2020 enhanced the experience for examiners
Abstract
15:00 – 15:40
Group Discussions (with short Break)
Room: Lisburn
15:40 – 16:20
Panel Discussion
Chairs: Mary Richardson and Caroline Jongkamp
Room: Belfast
Panelists:
Rose Clesham (Director of Academic Standards and Measurement, Pearson)
Grace Grima (Director of Research, Pearson UK)
David Haggie (Managing Director, Grademaker)
Graham Hudson (Managing Director, GA Partnership)
Anand Karat (President, Vretta)
Nicola Mellor (Qualifications Director, Chartered Insurance Institute)
Anja Sisarica (Strategic Relations Manager, Inspera)
Lydia May Townsend (Post graduate student, UCL)
Final thoughts from participants
16:20 – 16:30
SIG Review and Look Ahead
Martyn Ware
Room: Belfast
14:00 – 17:15
PhD session
Chairs: Christina Wikström and Stuart Shaw
Presentations
Room: Umea
Ruth Bonello (University of Malta, Malta)
Digital corpora and formative assessment in the French as a Foreign Language classroom within the Maltese context.
Tamara Rozas (University College London (UCL), England)
Assessment & Social Justice in a context of high stakes testing:
Conceptions and experiences from three Chilean schools’ oriented by inclusive projects
Sofie Holmquist (Umeå University, Sweden)
Disentangling Construct-relevant and Construct-irrelevant Multidimensionality of Self-Rating Scale data – An Application of Bi-factor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
Eleni Meletiadou (London South Bank University, England)
The use of Peer Assisted Learning/Mentoring (PAL/M) as an inclusive peer assessment strategy within foundation year practice
Shotaro Baba (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Function of a Past Exam: Focusing on the Perceptions of a Past Exam
Anne-Mai Meesak (Tallinn University and Education and Youth Authority, Estonia)
Children’s skills and their relationship with the home and kindergarten learning environment
Elisa de Padua (University of Cambridge, UK)
Building bridges between practices and beliefs regarding classroom assessment practices of reading comprehension in Chilean classrooms through a multiple case study
Hui Ma (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
The washback effects of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) from the views and experiences of students who are studying at an English as the medium of instruction (EMI) context in a Sino-UK joint programme in China.
Michael Taylor (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
To what extent is teacher practice affected by changes in education policy?
Friday, 6th of November 2020
Times below are in the Central European Timezone
10:00 – 11:00
General Assembly
Out-going President Jannette Elwood
AEA-Europe Council
Room: Umea
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Kathleen Tattersall New Researcher Award Winner Announcement
Chair: Elena Papanastasiou
Winner of the 2019 Award (unable to present in Lisbon 2019):
Aisling Keane: “Formative Assessment in Student Transition to Higher Education – A Sociocultural Perspective”
Winner of the 2020 Award:
Stéphanie Berger: “Implementation and validation of an item response theory scale for formative assessment”
Each award winner will give 15-20 mins for the presentation to allow for 5-10 mins of Q&A
Room: Belfast
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
Symposium and Discussion Panel
Education and Assessment Systems in a context of COVID-19: reactions, experiences and challenges for 2021 and beyond
Speakers:
Dennis Opposs (Ofqual, England)
The impact of the pandemic on school-leaving and university-entrance exams
around the world
Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford, England)
Assessment inequalities though the lens of the pandemic
Melanie Ehren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
COVID-19 and cancellations of school-leaving exams: restoring trust and legitimacy
Jannette Elwood (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Life Under Coronavirus – children and young people’s views on assessment in a turbulent year
Room: Belfast
15:30 – 16:00
Closing Event
Address by in-coming President Christina Wikström
Dublin 2021 Announcement: Damian Murchan and Gerry Shiel
Room: Umea
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