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09:30 Introduction by Chair
Dudley Dolan, Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin.
Dudley Dolan is a Chartered Engineer and has worked in the Computer Industry since joining IBM in 1962. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and advisor on European Affairs to the ECDL Foundation. He is a Founder and Distinguished Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, an Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society and the holder of a Medal of Honour from the Polish Information Processing Society. He was Vice Chairman of the CEPIS User Skills Task Force, which developed the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence). He participates in the E-LANE Project (European-Latin American New Education) funded by the EU Alliance for the Information Society with Latin America (@lis). He is a member of the European eSkills Forum and the CEN/ISSS Workshop on IT-Profiles and Curricula.
09:35 ‘The use of ICT to measure skills and knowledge – tools and techniques’
Denis Saunders, MD, Calibrand
Denis Saunders, MBA, BSc is Managing Director of Calibrand, the currency for talent® which he founded in 1991. He has spent several years working in both the Financial Services and Government sectors and has been involved in many skills and training related projects both in the UK and internationally Calibrand, the currency for talent® work with 5 of the 7 largest Financial Services companies in the UK and Eire, have delivered over 2m online tests and are ISO 9001 TickIT Quality Assured to the 2000 standard. They provide the online software for the 'Life in the UK' Citizenship test on behalf of the Home Office. Although happy to provide a range of solutions Calibrand believes that, today, it is possible to deliver competence assessment securely to anyone, at anytime, anywhere and on any device. Calibrand solutions are designed to achieve that objective.
10:05 ‘e-Portfolios and evidential assessments’
Alex Treloar, Paperfree will be speaking on behalf of Robert Smart, MD, Paperfree Systems
Alexandra Treloar is the newest member of the team at PaperFree Systems Ltd. After enjoying a successful and exciting career as a classical musician Alex worked for a number of years in the IT sector developing and running an end-user training department for a Sussex based IT networks and communications company. More recently she was the Training Coordinator of a Hereford based College delivering NVQs for 16 – 24 year olds through both Work based Learning and the Increased Flexibility Programme and introduced the PaperFree e-portfolio system into the College. She has spent the past few years balancing work with raising her daughter Sophie (5) in Hereford.
10.30 ‘Using the technology to support learning and teaching’
Graham Taylor, Head of Testwise, Granada Learning
Graham Taylor, Testwise Development Manager, nferNelson Granada Learning, runs nferNelson's Testwise electronic assessment service having overseen its development over the past three years from a small scale server based VLE module to its current incarnation as a huge web based service which has just delivered its 250,000th test. He joinned Granada Learning in 2000. He had a background initially in computer journalism and later in software development working as part of the Pearson Group with both Future Publishing and Rough Guides on web based versions of their magazines and books. Graham is married with two children Juila (12) and Stuart (14), and lives in Essex near Chelmsford
10.55 Coffee
11.15 Case Study 1
Prof Fred McBride, Alta Systems
Emeritus Professor Fred McBride BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, FBCS, CITP. Formerly, Honorary Lecturer in Computer Science, Honorary Professor of Education, Director of Computing Services and (founding) Director of the Institute of Computer Based Learning at The Queen’s University of Belfast, with academic interests including adaptive learning, teaching and assessment systems; conceptual programming tools for mathematics; functional programming languages; and models of processes in polymer chemistry. Currently working as the Chief Executive and R&D Director of ALTA Systems (NI) Ltd, which is engaged in a major project with CCEA to pilot large-scale, formative assessment systems in schools in Northern Ireland. This project has been extended to Scotland, England and the Isle of Man, where similar projects on a smaller scale are now underway.
11.45 Case Study 2
Dr Christian Horn, Broadcast Learning, NovaUCD, Dublin
Christian Horn is Chief Software Architect for Broadcast Learning, a Dublin based e-Learning company focussing on web-based, integrated Assessment Solutions Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Humboldt-Univeristy, Berlin, where he received a Diploma in Mathematics in 1979, a Dr.rer.nat. in Software Engineering in 1987 and a Dr.sc.nat. in Artificial Intelligence in 1989. From 1991-1996 he was Professor of Computer Science and served as Head of Department at the University of Applied Science (FH) Furtwangen, Germany. In 1996 Christian founded Lionet Ltd. an Internet Technology company that developed the ViewPort Browser Product which was acquired in 2004 by Broadcast Learning.
12.15 Question and Answer Panel
12:30 ‘Introduction to afternoon workshop’
Prometric Team
12:45 Buffet Lunch, networking & browse informal exhibition stands
13:45 ‘'The Science and Art of Exam Development' a workshop with the goal of explaining what psychometricians do, why they do it and to demonstrate how test development is science, and how it is like law, accounting, and art. Prometric (Dublin) Team
Paul E. Jones, PhD.
Paul Jones is Senior Psychometrician at Thomson Prometric who has worked in the certification industry for over 15 years, providing test development and job analysis services to a variety of clients, including most of the IT industry's major certification programs. Paul worked on the first industrial applications of computerized adaptive testing and simulation and developed procedures for certification test development in rapidly changing technical domains. Paul also serves on the board of directors for the Performance Testing Council. Current interests include test development standards and systems, validity, lab environments for certification testing, borderline standard setting, small-n test development, and the effects of continuous availability on CBT item pools.
‘Review of Workshops’
15:00 Tea
15:15 Question and Answer Panel on issues raised by workshop session
15:45 The e-Assessment Association a review of progress
Jeff Ross, Assessment Tomorrow
Jeff Ross, is currently working as a consultant advising clients on the management, development and introduction of IT systems to meet educational, assessment, business and administrative needs. He has managed a range of international conferences and events to do with promoting and delivering computer based testing and assessment. Previously he was a senior manager with a major awarding body, where he was responsible for operational change management programmes associated with the introduction of ICT solutions for qualifications. A published e-Author (Business Continuity Management, Project Management and e-Assessments in Maths) he has held key senior management roles in Project Management, IT, Operations and Logistics Management. He is currently co-Project Director on the establishment of the e-Assessment Association, a new professional body for e-Assessment.
16:00 ‘Technology in support of personal development, a vision for career and professional development’
Colin Deal, Examware and Jeff Ross, Assessment Tomorrow
Colin Deal, has a career spent mainly in the British computer industry which has covered both system and business development, in the UK and internationally. For the last twelve years has concentrated on the application of computers to the delivery of exams, initially the secure certification exams for professionals within the computer sector itself, and then the adoption of such approaches by the Financial Services sector, the Driving Standards Agency, and the Construction Industry’s Health and Safety certifications. Together, these exams represent annual volumes approaching 2 million, so are still dwarfed by the potential that exists in other sectors, which has yet to be exploited and on which his current activities are mainly focused
16:25 Final address & review by Chair
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