Applications

The CIEA team had screened the applicants who were from a wide variety of backgrounds, although the majority were Local Authority personnel. The quality of the applications was exceptionally high.

The York Event

This particular event was part of the CIEA's remit to provide a CEA for every school by 2020.  This is a particularly demanding remit, but by the end of this calendar year, there should be sufficient CEAs to roll the programme out nationally and run simultaneous events.

In total 14 delegates were chosen to take part in the event. The event followed the now familiar pattern of looking at the processes that lie within the Professional Framework:

• Preparing for Assessment
• Conducting Assessment
• Feeding Back after Assessment
• Managing Oneself
• Managing Others

Since this was both a training and assessment event, the CIEA team made clear to the delegates that they would be continuously assessed, with their understanding of the Professional Framework and its application to any assessment process scrutinised in detail.

Evaluations

Delegates were asked to complete an evaluation at the end of the two days. The results of that evaluation from the York event can be found below:

  

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neither Agree or Disagree
The materials were fit for purpose	86%	14%	0%
The materials for preparing for assessment fulfilled their objectives	79%	21%	0%
The methods for conducting assessment fulfilled their objectives	79%	21%	0%
The materials for data handling fulfilled their objectives	86%	14%	0%
The materials for feeding backfulfilled their objectives	86%	14%	0%
The materials for personal/inter-personal skills fulfilled their objectives	79%	14%	7%
The tasks that were set were purposeful	86%	14%	0%
The information provided was useful	86%	14%	0%
I am confident of helping others.	43%	43%	14%
The training and assessment has been enjoyable	93%	7%	0%
The training and assessment has been informative	93%	7%	0%

 

 

Delegate comments:

An incredibly valuable and worthwhile course which will provide a comprehensible and rigorous framework to work with. Thank you!

A very enjoyable 2 days which have been demanding and challenging and satisfying. Thank you! Lovely venue and food.

Enjoyable and challenging but still some outstanding questions / issue about rollout for independent consultants.

Very helpful enjoyable 2 days in an unthreatening and supportive manner

The whole experience was rewarding and stimulating

I  thought this was a really good training event. Thank you.

Relaxed and non-threatening atmosphere - lots to reflect on - very supportive throughout

This has been a really worthwhile course. Things learned here will be really useful for future development. The material was excellent. The tasks set were designed to test learning and reinforce what we covered. We all settled well and enjoyed the training.

An enjoyable professional training event in a good venue.

Thank you for an interesting training session.

T his has been a very informative course and has given me the motivation to research the subject further. Although the tasks were challenging I felt supported by colleagues and the course leaders

This has been a great opportunity to see how, no matter the context e.g. primary/HE, the process of assessment is the same.