Press Release

Date: Thursday 17 June 2010 (NR/09/10)

CCEA Highlights the Benefits of e-Assessment

More than 50 education professionals learned about the importance of e-assessment yesterday as they attended an information seminar at the Hilton, Templepatrick. The event was organised by CCEA, the Northern Ireland regulator for all non-vocational qualifications including Essential Skills.

Electronic-assessment is being used increasingly in both general and vocational qualifications. At the event CCEA launched an Easy Reference Guide for e-assessment and offered further assistance and direction on the development of e-Assessment in qualifications in schools and colleges throughout Northern Ireland.

Lean Chambers, ICT teacher at St. Columb’s College said:

This seminar has been very helpful to be and I cannot wait to bring the information I have learnt today back to the school. St Columb’s are keen to be involved in future e-assessment initiatives.

David Crosbie, Qualifications Development Officer at CCEA, commented:

Today teachers have been shown case-studies of using e-assessment in qualifications. The benefits include greater flexibility, a reduced administration burden and an improved assessment experience.

It is good to see that this seminar has appealed to a broad range of professionals from Principals to teachers in both secondary and further education colleges. With high-profile exhibitors, the delegates have seen what the main players in e-assessment are doing across UK.

The practitioners handbook should also be a useful resource which they can take away with them today, acting as a straight-forward reference guide to help schools better understand e-Assessment.

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Additional Information

e-Assessment
e-Assessment is the use of information technology within the assessment process and it is becoming increasingly mainstream, both in the classroom and in the workplace. e-Assessment is being used increasingly in both general and vocational qualifications. The qualifications regulators in England (Ofqual), Wales (DCELLS), Scotland (SQA) and Northern Ireland (CCEA) wish to promote flexibility and innovation in qualifications development, including the use of e-assessment.

Event information
Date: Wednesday 16 June
Venue: Hilton, Templepatrick
Time: 9.30 – 12.30pm

Exhibitors at the e-Assessment event were:

  • C2K
  • CCEA Awarding Body
  • Edexcel
  • Learning Assistant
  • LSDA - The Learning and Skills Development Agency
  • OCR
  • RSCni - Regional Support Centre NI
  • RTU - The Regional Training Unit

The CCEA Regulator
CCEA acts as the regulator for all non-vocational qualifications including Essential Skills and for the regulation of the development of all qualification types.
CCEA acts as the regulator for all non-vocational qualifications including Essential Skills.

CCEA is responsible for advice and guidance regarding all qualifications including vocational qualifications.

 

CCEA Highlights the Benefits of e-Assessment

Siobhan Matthewson, Head of ICT at Lumen Christi College (left), with
CCEA’s David Crosbie and Lisa McMahon

 

Media enquiries to Ruth Maguire on (028) 9026 1216, Mobile 07796947993. E mail rhmaguire@ccea.org.uk

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Note to Editors

CCEA is the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.

CCEA places learners and those who have a concern for their educational and personal development at the forefront of its thinking. CCEA's mission is:
"To enable the full potential of all learners to be achieved and recognised"

What we do

CCEA is a unique educational body in the UK , bringing together the three areas of curriculum, examinations and assessment.

Advising Government – on what should be taught in Northern Ireland ’s schools and colleges.

Monitoring Standards – ensuring that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard.

Awarding Qualifications

– as Northern Ireland’s leading awarding body we offer a diverse range of qualifications, such as GCSEs, including the new GCSE Double Award specifications in vocational subjects, GCE A and AS levels, Entry Level Qualifications, and Graded Objectives in Modern Languages.

- CCEA also offers a range of Awards and Certificates in Education, Training and Skills (ACETS) targeted at learners who want to get
the knowledge, understanding and skills needed
to hit the ground running in the world of work.