11:00

Welcome - Slides
By Nynke de Boer, Program Director 1EdTech Europe

Introduction - Slides - Recording
By Steve Bailey, Product Marketing Manager at Blackboard

Learning analytics has always relied upon assessment as both a measurement of student performance and a leading indicator of future success, but we are now starting to see the process of assessment itself benefitting from analytical methods. In this introduction I will review the history of this relationship and share some examples of how it is changing for the benefit of both areas.

1EdTech Europe member Lightning Talk - Slides - Recording

Online Proctoring: When do you push the RED button?
By Erwin van Schaffelaar, Chief Commercial Officer at XQuiry

Monitoring a live proctored exam requests utmost concentration of the live proctor. Under remote high stakes conditions good, fair testing remains a basic exam regulation principle. There are many forms of irregularities, incidents and violations than can be observed when candidates navigate through their exam. Which ones do you capture and report on? Taking into account that a live proctor monitors at least 6 candidates at the same time. Nothing is what it seems when we assess multiple aberrant patterns. Is there a difference between what we observe and how we judge?

1EdTech Europe member Lightning Talk - Slides - Recording

Discussion
Smaller breakout groups for attendees to meet and discuss

Perspectives on Digital Assessment in a global context - Slides - Recording
By Matt Richards, Principal Product Owner at Cambridge Assessment

From enabling new approaches to engaging learners, supporting greater educational insights and ultimately ensuring more scalable and convenient products, the transition to Digital Assessment provides significant opportunities to learning and assessment organisations.
 
As we continue with this transformation, we must however ensure we bring the learners and educational organisations we support with us. 'Learners' are not a single entity: they have different experiences and confidence in technology. Educational Organisations also have varying access to mix of different digital platforms. All of this must be taken into account as we design our assessments.
 
Over the course of this session, Matt will outline some of these areas, whilst demonstrating how the rich data used to support learners can also help us maintain the quality of our assessments too.

13:30

Welcome
By Nynke de Boer, Program Director 1EdTech Europe

Keynote presentation - Learning analytics and the effective use of assessments - Slides - Recording
By Bart Rienties, Professor of Learning Analytics, PFHEA at Open University UK

As assessments drive student learning there is a wealth of research and practical experience providing guidelines on how to effectively design different forms of assessment. In this presentation, I will discuss how the Open University UK is using online assessments for its 170K students, and how learning analytics can provide unique insights into how students make complex assessment decisions.

1EdTech Europe member Lightning Talk - Slides - Recording

Analytics in vocational assessment
By Paddy Craven,  Director of Assessment Policy, Research and Compliance at City & Guilds

1EdTech Europe member Lightning Talk - Slides - Recording

Access Beyond the Assessment: Accessibility for all Aspects of Digital Testing
By Thomas Hoffmann, Director of Product Strategy & Solutions at Open Assessment Technologies

Accessibility has long been a challenge in the assessment industry. With the recent uptick in online learning and assessment this year, it’s crucial that we rise to meet this challenge. It’s taken longer than many of us hoped, but online assessment platforms are finally taking accessibility seriously, and many vendors are openly boasting about their accessibility compliance and features. However, accessibility for tests isn’t only applicable to the test itself. Assessment programs need to dig a little deeper and think through the entire chain of access to all of the aspects of taking a test.

In this lightning talk, we dive into providing access for the whole assessment process, including what this looks like for test-takers, agents and test creators. We also discuss the critical 1EdTech learning standards that enable accessibility beyond the assessment for all aspects of digital testing.

1EdTech Europe member Lightning Talk - Slides - Recording

Authentic Assessment, what’s next?
By Saskia Wools, Director Research, Knowledge and Innovations at Cito

At Cito we develop authentic assessments to create an immersive testing experience. In this Lightning Talk two examples are shown to demonstrate our newest generation of assessments. These assessments include regular assessment interaction types in an authentic context. And although known item types are used, these assessments do not feel like an assessment anymore. The result? Students enjoy taking these assessments, they are able to demonstrate their ability better and feel less stressed. The problem? Current standards do not seem to provide a way to make this content interoperable. How can we adapt these standards to support this use case?

Panel discussion - Bringing together Digital Assessment and Learning Analytics - Recording

Facilitated by Thomas Hoffmann, Director of Product Strategy & Solutions at Open Assessment Technologies

• Bart Rienties, Professor of Learning Analytics, PFHEA at Open University UK
• Mark Molenaar, founder at Apenutmize
• Phil Richards, CTO Data at Jisk
• Yeona Jang, Chief Community Engagement Officer at Explorance