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Has the assessment sector lost the digital exam story?
The story of digital exams and assessment is at risk of being hijacked. How so? Journalists conflating online exams with remote proctoring. Regulators saying ' written essays are the purest assessment '. Government advisors and policy folk absently forgetting digital exam trials and deployments over the last 20 years . Digital assessment and exams are at risk of becoming politically toxic. Not because digital is bad, but because they’re often badly explained by the sector, w
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Move to digital exams, win a microwave?
Moving to digital exams for schools needs macro messages, not transactional retail offers.
Jun 4, 20243 min read


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...
Jan 27, 20243 min read


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
Jan 17, 20242 min read


24 years ago we moved a big exam from paper to on-screen
Moving a 1.5M paper test to on-screen delivery
Jan 4, 20242 min read
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