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SUMMARY:Can the public have confidence in national assessments? - Andrew W
 atts\, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment
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DESCRIPTION:Each year examination boards and awarding bodies have to cope 
 with negative perceptions of the working of the examinations process in th
 e press and among their stakeholders. Is this a situation which people can
  accept? Or is a general questioning of the professionalism of the boards 
 undermining the national exam system? Have the awarding bodies made any im
 pact on public perceptions by their greater transparency and by aligning t
 heir practices and procedures to public regulation? Perhaps this agenda sh
 ould include more discussion of the meaning of the term ‘measurement err
 or’\, but will that term be unhelpfully misunderstood? Could there be mo
 re ways in which awarding bodies could work with their stakeholders to inc
 rease public trust in the judgements made by examiners and assessors?\n\nD
 ate: 14 September\nTime: 10.30–12.00\nVenue: Cambridge Assessment\, 1 Hi
 lls Road\nCost: Free to University of Cambridge staff and students\, £30 
 for others 
LOCATION:Cambridge Assessment\, 1 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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