In our latest RM Talks webinar, leading experts will discuss how awarding organisations can use the latest in digital marking technology to assess a wider range of candidate work at scale, while upholding the principles of fair and reliable assessment.
Tuesday 10th November 2026
10:00-11:00am GMT
Online webinar discussion
Why attend?
As assessment evolves, awarding organisations naturally seek to include a broad range of candidate response types in their assessments while maintaining confidence in the fairness, validity and reliability of outcomes.
Join leading experts in assessment research, examining and digital assessment technology as they discuss how digital marking is developing to support modern assessment models, richer forms of candidate evidence and changing stakeholder expectations.
Discover:
- How assessment principles translate into digital marking practice
- The role of digital marking in supporting reliable, high-quality assessment at scale
- The challenges and opportunities presented by more authentic, digital-first assessments
- How technology can support standardisation, quality assurance and examiner confidence
- The evolving expectations of candidates and examiners in a digital assessment landscape
Whether you're responsible for assessment strategy, quality, operations or innovation, you'll leave with practical insights into how digital marking is evolving to meet the challenges of future assessment.
Meet the speakers
Gwyneth Toolan
Digital Adoption and Training Lead, RM Assessment
Gwyneth is a passionate member of the assessment community with a background in teaching training and leadership, and she can often be shown sharing her experience in the Cambridge assessment network. As the founder of our RM Talks programme, she uses her network of contacts to bring in speakers on subjects close to the heart of the assessment community.
Professor Phillip Ormrod
Professor of Accounting, University of Liverpool. Senior examiner, moderator and marker for ICAEW Professional Level exams
University professor and experienced senior examiner for professional accounting exams, working for a variety of Awarding Organisations and is used to using RM Assessor in practice. Phil will bring a user experience lens to the discussion and help guide us to think about technology as secondary to human processes used by examiners and senior marking teams in agreeing, setting and applying the 'standard' to assessments. Phil specialises in accounting and finance.
Dr Simon Child
Head of Assessment Training at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Head of Assessment Training at The Assessment Network at Cambridge and a marking expert who champions research into the principles of assessment, marking reliability, validity and fairness. His research interests include the psychology of marking in large-scale assessments, and how effective design principles can contribute to marking reliability. Simon will help us explore how practical application of marking principles takes shape in practice at Awarding Organisations and how technology can aid in this.
Nick Lockwood
Solutions Architect, RM Assessment
Nick is an RM solution architect with nearly 20 years’ experience working on digital assessment and result systems. Nick will bring a high-level view of the latest developments in RM Ava, including how marking digital content will look and feel now that full e-marking capability is integrated with the assessment delivery platform.
He will also talk about external marking potential for customers wanting to use non-human marking software, and the differences between marking eCoursework and new digital content.