Festival of Education 2022

By Mark House

Festival and education

Welcome back to the Festival of Education

After last year's online event it is so good to see a 'proper' Festival of Education up and running later this week at Wellington College. With over 3000 attendees and umpteen brilliant speakers and events it's hard to think of a better place to properly take the pulse of the profession right now.

There are a couple of sessions focusing on research projects using Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) through RM Compare which I am particularly looking forward to attending (obviously!). Each one is trying to tackle really important challenges and I am looking forward to hearing about some of the early findings.

Comparative judgment as facilitator for peer assessment (Thursday 7th July, 12.15 - 13.15)

Dr. Eva Hartell (Head of Education Research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology) will be talking about her work, including how ACJ can be applied to various settings, for example as a facilitator for peer assessment for both students and teachers with examples primarily undertaken in STEM ed. Details HERE.

Dr. Eva Hartell will be talking about her work, including how ACJ can be applied to various settings,

The problem of assessing oracy: is comparative judgement the answer? (Thursday 7th July, 14.15 - 15.00)

Hear from Amanda Moorghen (Head of Research and Impact) about the findings of ‘Comparing Talk’, a Voice 21 and Rethinking Assessment research project working with schools across the UK to develop a new approach to oracy assessment. Details HERE.

Hear from Amanda Moorghen (Head of Research and Impact) on the findings of ‘Comparing Talk’, a Voice 21 and Rethinking Assessment research project working with schools across the UK to develop a new approach to oracy assessment