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SUMMARY:Cambridge Assessment Network: Assessment in support of learning - 
 Andrew Watts
DTSTART:20130413T093000Z
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DESCRIPTION:What do people mean when they claim that summative assessment 
 ‘damages learning’? And what are the recommendations of groups which c
 hampion greater reliance on Assessment for Learning? This seminar will loo
 k at some of the arguments which have been put on both sides of this debat
 e. Is it possible to say that formative assessment regimes support learnin
 g better than summative? Or is there more to say about the positive effect
  of examinations and external assessments on learning?\n\n Key topics\n\n
 ■What is learning?\n■Lifelong learning\n■Claims that summative asses
 sment damages learning\n■Assessment schemes that claim to support learni
 ng\n■A place for summative assessment in learning\n\nSpeaker biography\n
 \nAndrew Watts began his career as a teacher of English in England. After 
 eleven years he moved to Singapore where he taught at a Junior College (fo
 r A level) for over four years. Andrew then worked for five and a half yea
 rs in the Curriculum Planning Division of the Ministry of Education in Sin
 gapore\, focusing on curriculum development in English teaching and in-ser
 vice teacher development. In 1990 he returned to England and worked with C
 ambridge Assessment from the summer of 1992. For most of that time Andrew 
 looked after teams that were developing national tests for 14-year-olds in
  England\, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nAs Director of the Cambridge Ass
 essment Network from 2004 to January 2009\, Andrew led the setting up of t
 he Network\, whose purpose is to promote online and face-to-face professio
 nal development opportunities for teachers and those who work in assessmen
 t.\n\nAndrew now works freelance on a variety of education and assessment 
 projects. He contributes regularly to assessment seminars\, workshops\, tr
 aining courses and conferences both in the UK and internationally.\n
LOCATION:9 Hills Road\, Cambridge Assessment
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