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SUMMARY:Cambridge Assessment Network: Validity and the value of educationa
 l assessments - Andrew Watts
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DESCRIPTION:Understanding of the concept of validity has been developing o
 ver the past century. It is the fundamental aspect of any assessment but i
 t is claimed that present explanations of validity are not helpful because
  they emphasise the interpretation and use of assessment results\, a matte
 r over which exam and test developers have limited control. Traditionally\
 , examinations in the UK have relied on maintaining a close link with the 
 content of the teaching curriculum to underpin the validity of their asses
 sments. Can we ensure the value of assessment results by simply reaffirmin
 g this traditional system?\n\nKey topics\n\n■Validity and value\n■Defi
 nitions of validity\n■Aspects of validity\n■Current debate about the m
 eaning of validity\n■Validation\n\nSpeaker biography\n\nAndrew Watts beg
 an his career as a teacher of English in England. After eleven years he mo
 ved to Singapore where he taught at a Junior College (for A level) for ove
 r four years. Andrew then worked for five and a half years in the Curricul
 um Planning Division of the Ministry of Education in Singapore\, focusing 
 on curriculum development in English teaching and in-service teacher devel
 opment. In 1990 he returned to England and worked with Cambridge Assessmen
 t 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\, Norther
 n Ireland and Wales.\n\nAs Director of the Cambridge Assessment Network fr
 om 2004 to January 2009\, Andrew led the setting up of the Network\, whose
  purpose is to promote online and face-to-face professional development op
 portunities for teachers and those who work in assessment.\n\nAndrew now w
 orks freelance on a variety of education and assessment projects. He contr
 ibutes regularly to assessment seminars\, workshops\, training courses and
  conferences both in the UK and internationally\n
LOCATION:Hughes Hall\, Mortimer Road\, Cambridge\, UK
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