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A conference for all those involved in assessing and certifying skills, knowledge and understanding.

 

The 2018 Beyond Multiple Choice conference examined where the latest tools, techniques and technologies of assessment and its role in learning, training and professional development are heading. A full house of delegates and attendees joined us for two days of discovery, lively debate and hearing expert opinion form education and training, policy makers and technologists  - November 7th and 8th, 2018 at the SpyMuseum, Washington DC

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Conference Goal

 

To examine how the tools, techniques and technologies of e-Assessment can respond to the challenges of the world we live in.

 

From all sides the pressure is on to provide cost effective, robust and secure assessment for learning, examinations and qualifications. At the same time, the tools and technologies are evolving and Learners’ expectations are those of the digital age.

 

These sometimes contradictory elements provide, opportunities and risks that must be balanced and that the speakers at the conference will evaluate.

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Reasons delegates attended the conference:

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• if you want to start using or expand your current educational computer based testing and assessment programs

• if you want to learn more about how computer based testing is an integral part of a modern digital learning strategy for any organisation

• if you want to take advantage of the tools for 21st century digital assessment to learn more about your students and employers and help them to reach their potential

• if you use e-Assessment of skills and knowledge and want to upgrade and develop your current uses

• if you are leading an educational institution through a period of change brought on by technology upgrade

• if you are concerned about the validity, integrity or reliability of your qualification and certification programs

• if you want to find out more about the tools and techniques of e-Assessment beyond multiple choice and conventional objective item testing

• if you want to further integrate your educational testing process into your learning systems and processes

• if you are a professional body with responsibility for education and training in your industry

• if you want to learn how to tighten and strengthen the processes you use to digitally assess skills, knowledge or understanding

• if you want to understand how the challenges of the 21st century digital world will impact your testing and assessment activities

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e-Assessment, the use of modern technologies to assess skills, knowledge and understanding can be used in many scenarios

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• to certify and credentialize skills and achievement,

• to select and differentiate candidates for recruitment, enrollment or progression,

• to understand more about and get closer to your members, employees, or learners,

• to manage Licentiate programs, membership and assessment of professional competence,

• to record achievement and attainment and support decision making in teaching,  

• to support learning and training

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In all these areas the traditional approach of multiple choice testing (also called objective item testing) has served its purpose for the last quarter of a century or longer.

 

Now however advances in technology, developments in our understanding of learning and the tools of assessment, the expectations of students, learners and applicants in a digital world present us with real opportunities to look again at this whole field.

 

The Beyond Multiple Choice conference will embrace those options and discuss their impact, how we can implement them and how best to take advantage of these developments.

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