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CIEAMail
Issue 37
September 2009
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Welcome to CIEAMail, the topical monthly members e-newsletter, carrying news and views from the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA).
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Last chance to book your place on the upcoming CEA event!
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The next Chartered Educational Assessor training event will take place on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th October 2009 in York.
Places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment. The closing date for applications is 12th October 2009.
Find out more and apply
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Diploma assessment training now available for Lead and Domain Assessors!
As a National Support Partner of the Diploma we can help you deliver effective internal assessment in your school, college or consortium through our Lead and Domain Assessor training.
The roles of both Lead and Domain Assessors are critically important to the effective delivery of the Diploma within your consortium. The CIEA is able to provide you with the appropriate level of training and support to enable you to develop your knowledge and understanding of good assessment practice.
Find out more about the training by visiting the Diploma section of our website: or email the Diploma Training Team
You can also come and speak to us at the 4th Delivering the Diploma conference on the 1st October 2009 at the Aston Conference Centre in Birmingham.
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New Assessment for Learning (AfL) Strategy - Quality Standards Tool
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The CIEA has developed, with the DCSF and National Strategies, a quality standards tool that enables schools to review their progress in implementing AfL with APP.
How does the tool work?
Click here to access the tool
For each statement, click on the exemplification materials for your phase - primary or secondary. A box will open that describes each of the standards. Choose the statement that best fits your circumstances. Close the exemplification box by clicking OK. Enter your school's status by clicking the appropriate radio button. Follow this procedure for each of the standards statements.
When you have completed all the statements, click submit and the tool will automatically give you a printable version of the RAGG status of your school.
We advise that you revisit the tool periodically to evaluate how you are progressing against your initial evaluation.
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CIEA and AQA partner to offer accredited CPD
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The CIEA is working with the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) to support teachers' Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements, in response to requests from members.
AQA is offering support for teachers who wish to become more closely involved in improving assessment practices in Key Stage 3 English.
There will be two courses on offer:
Getting started with Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP) is aimed at those teachers with little or no knowledge of APP
Co-ordinating APP is aimed at those English teachers in secondary schools who have some knowledge of APP
Read more.
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CIEA Regional Networks take off with a bang!
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Earlier this month we reported the introduction of online regional networks, and in less than two weeks we have received nearly 100 expressions of interest, set-up three new groups (North West, Northern Ireland and South West), and welcomed 12 regional network managers.
Groups now include:
National Network, East Midlands Network, London Network, North East Network, North West Network, Northern Ireland Network, South East Network, South West Network and West Midlands Network
Latest posts:
'Robot' computer to mark English essays, CIEA, National Network
Controlled Assessment (CA) - no wonder everyone's confused. (Brian Crossland CEA)
What do teachers want from the Examination Boards? (David Sharpe CEA)
Do you think that there should just be a single region covering the North East and Yorkshire and Humber? (Annabel Dawson CEA)
Will the A* grade for A levels single out the better students from those that receive an A grade? (Anthony McCourt FCIEA)
JOIN HERE
Note: You will need to register on the LinkedIn website before accessing your local group, so your CIEA username and password will not work automatically; however there is nothing stopping you from using the same username and password!
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CEO of the CIEA speaks to Delivering Diplomas magazine
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The first edition of the new Delivering Diplomas magazine has been published by SecEd and contains practical advice and guidance to help you deliver the Diploma. In the inaugural edition the CEO of the institute, David Wright, talks about the new Diplomas, the assessment training and support offered by the CIEA and asks whether it is public confidence that will determine the success of the qualification.
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CIEA AGM.
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The 5th Annual General Meeting has had to be deferred from Friday 30th October 2009. It has now been rescheduled to be held on Tuesday 8th December 2009 at a central London location.
An individual invitation will be issued to all eligible voting members - at least 21 days before the meeting - together with advice of how to register your attendance or your vote by proxy (if needed). If you are interested in finding out more please contact our Operations Manager, Dawn Smith
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CIEA attends AAIA and Council for Subject Associations Conferences.
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On 16th September the CIEA attended the 20th Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment (AAIA) annual conference in Bournemouth.
The title of this year's conference was 'Don't Teach Me, Help Me to Learn - The role of assessment' and the keynote speaker was Ex-Director of Curriculum at the QCDA, Mick Waters
The event attracted over 120 school and local authority representatives. Other speakers included Mike Hull from the Calderdale Local Authority and Julie Addis of the Welsh Assembly (DCELLS)
More information about AAIA
The CIEA also attended the Council for Subjects Associations (CfSA) Conference at the Hilton London Kensington Hotel. The event was attended by subject association management team members and themes included the new Masters in Teaching and Learning (session led by Director, Masters in Teaching and Learning, TDA) and increasing subject association membership - the need for a national campaign (session led by David Jones, CEO, Council for Subject Associations).
More information about CfSA
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Have you registered your assessment-related areas of interest?
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We are keen to ensure that we have your specialist assessment-related area(s) of interest registered against your membership profile. We have recently added further assessment interest area(s) to enable us to communicate tailored products and services that are targeted to your professional development needs.
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Make the Grade magazine - coming soon
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The autumn edition of Make the Grade magazine will shortly be landing on all CIEA members' door mats within the next week and as always the magazine includes a number of expert reviews and articles on assessment practice from some of the country's leading practitioners some of which have been featured below.
Features
CIEA Chair Lord Sutherland shares his views shaped by a lifetime dedicated to education.
Louise Hayward from Glasgow looks at how to give the best chances for high-stakes tests.
A Day in the Life: Jeannine Shardlow uses personalised assessment to raise standards in Primary science.
To read past editions of the magazine online please follow the link below. If you would like to order further copies of the previous editions of Make the Grade then please email us stating your name, edition, quantity and membership number.
To access past editions of Make the Grade click here...
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CIEA to present at the Westminster Education Forum seminar: Testing and Assessment. 15% discount for CIEA members.
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The Westminster Education Forum is hosting a seminar, on the 11th November 2009 that will look into a number of key issues including; the future of assessment, the amount of testing currently in schools, whether we are 'teaching to the test', the role of testing and the level of public confidence in the examination system.
Isabel Nisbet, Acting Chief Executive, Ofqual will be delivering the keynote address at this seminar.
To book your place and access the 15% CIEA members discount please click here and apply for the concessionary rate. You will be asked why you qualify for concessions. Please state you are a member of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors .
The report, Planning for change: The impact of the new Key Stage 3 curriculum, found that, of all the changes introduced last September for Years 7 to 9, teachers were most enthusiastic about the opportunity to introduce more varied approaches to teaching and learning
Assessment information from primary schools is not being used to shape teaching and learning in Key Stage 3 in a way that helped teachers personalise learning.
Read more...
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E-newsletter feedback
Let us know what you think of the e-newsletter and any features you'd like to see in future issues.
If you're feeling creative and would like to contribute an article, please send an email to info@ciea.org.uk. Until next time.
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