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When you forget about trialling school digital exams and assessment 20 years ago.

I read yesterday’s review report on curriculum and assessment, chaired by former Secretary of State for Education Charles Clarke,...

Taboos and Fairy Stories - How will schools adopt digital exams?

The how and why of school digital exam delivery.

Got issues? Don’t let Mr Angry stop the digital exam debate

Why do angry educators try to shut down the school digital exam debate? Read how mis-trust, inarticulacy, and passivity prevents advocacy.

Move to digital exams, win a microwave?

Moving to digital exams for schools needs macro messages, not transactional retail offers.

Digital exam readiness: think gas central heating, not smart meters.

What the digital exam sector can learn from the UK's move to 'wonderfuel' gas.

Rage Against the Exam Regulatory Machine?

A sell-out Next Generation Assessment conference in Manchester this week saw digital exam contributions from learners, student voice,...

It's a Vision Thing. 5 problems with the Digital School Exams vision, and how to improve it.

The school digital exam vision seems to have stalled. Here are five problems with the vision, and five solutions on how to improve it.

Hey Paper Hostage, what’s the rush? Why school exam digitisation perpetuates inequality. But not how you think.

England’s school exam owners have presented their digital journey to 2030. Railway enthusiasts may scoff, but isn’t seven years too long...

Can Gaming Developers Make Better Digital Exams?

Paper behind glass. It’s often what exam owner’s try when moving to digital exams. The same questions (usually multiple choice) with the...

Are digital exams given a free (green) pass?

Are digital exams given a free (green) pass? Environmental evidence is still sparse, but lower power, sustainable computers may be an answer

The new Metric Martyrs? Are digital exams really the same as paper ones?

England’s school exam owners are preparing to offer GCSE digital exams and their paper equivalent in parallel. But is that fair? Is one...

24 years ago we moved a big exam from paper to on-screen

Moving a 1.5M paper test to on-screen delivery

A question of duality: 11 reasons why exam dual-sourcing is good and bad for learners and exam owners

After seven years of delivering through one assessment company, Microsoft Learning have returned to ‘dual-sourcing’, that is offering...