Explore public perceptions of educational assessment in this workshop

Join RM's Digital Adoption and Training Lead, Gwyneth Toolan, together with expert speakers Isabel Nisbet and Stuart Shaw, as they explore who we really mean by 'the public' in educational assessment, and whether public perceptions matter for organisations designing, delivering, or regulating assessments. 

📅 Thursday 14th May

🕙10am - 11am (BST)

📍Online Workshop

They will unpack the different publics involved and examine how opinions are formed, amplified, and sometimes misunderstood. They will also look at the tensions between expert and non expert perspectives.

Assessment professionals bring deep technical knowledge, while public views may be shaped by personal experience, media stories, or high profile controversies.

As the assessment landscape continues to evolve, these and other issues explored in this discussion are likely to become even more significant.

We invite participants to discuss the relevance of these issues for your own work.

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About the speakers

Isabel Nisbet’s executive career was in government and regulation, including the regulation of medicine and medical education as well as of educational assessment. She was the first CEO of Ofqual, the regulator of exams and qualifications in England, after which she worked for Cambridge International Examinations based in Singapore.  She has served on advisory committees across the UK and on the Boards of Governors of four English universities. She is currently Vice-Chair of the University of Bedfordshire.

Isabel has maintained an active interest in the theory and practice of educational assessment and has collaborated with Stuart Shaw on two books, with a third on the way. Her academic background is in philosophy and she was recently appointed to the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. 

Stuart Shaw  is an educational assessment researcher, consultant, and author. He is Honorary Associate Professor of University College London in the Institute of Education - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment. Stuart has worked for international awarding organisations for over 20 years and was Head of Research at Cambridge Assessment International Examinations. He is particularly interested in demonstrating how educational, psychological, and vocational tests seek to meet the demands of validity, reliability, and fairness. He has a wide range of publications in English second language assessment and educational/psychological research journals, as well as several books.

Stuart is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA). He is also a Fellow of the CIEA with Chartered Assessor Status. He is a Fellow of the Association for Educational Assessment in Europe (AEA-Europe), an elected member of the Council of AEA-Europe and is Chair of its Scientific Programme Committee. He is also an Honorary Lifetime Member of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA).

He has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the e-Assessment Association (e-AA) and is Chair of its ‘Research’ Awards Panel. Stuart regularly presents at British, European and International conferences and has given keynote presentations.