Sign up for our webinar 20 November 2020 10.30 -12.00 CET
On 13 May we organised a webinar with the title New Ideas for Assessment, which looked at how countries were responding to the pandemic in addressing their assessment. We had a huge interest in the webinar, so much that the system we used for multi-lingual videoconferencing broke down.
Many countries were struggling with what to do with the end of the year and final assessment in VET. They opted for postponing exams, making changes in the way the assessment was performed or cancelled the end of the year assessments.
We are now at the eve of second lockdowns in many countries, schools and some companies are forced to close again. The Covid crisis has caused major disruptions in our lives. VET has been affected more than general education and higher education, because it requires practice that cannot be easily performed remotely at home and online.
In May the mood was optimistic. It was a one-off situation that required adaptations, but most people were still expecting to return to a normal situation. In the meantime, long term changes are becoming more visible. Apart from the health hazards, many people are out of work, requiring measures to help them into different jobs. This is clearly reflected in the new Skills Strategy of the EU that is much more focused on a transformation of economies and more on lifelong learning.
So how do these big changes affect assessment and in particular the assessment that counts for certification. After all, learners would like to complete their training with a qualification.
In 2021 the pandemic could affect summative assessment again. We expect that in the years to come there will be a new world emerging from the crisis that will require a rethink of how we deal with assessment. We would like to talk about that in our webinar in two weeks’ time. We are going to look at what actually happened with the cases that were part of our webinar in May and continue with two scenarios that we see for summative assessment in VET in the future. Both aim at increasing trust in summative assessment.
The first one is looking at more modular assessment in authentic conditions in work places, where assessment is per se less standardised because workplaces differ. The second one is looking at a trend towards independent but more standardised assessment outside the classroom, e.g. in assessment centres.
We would like to discuss the pro’s and con’s of these scenarios, to challenge the way assessment has been done so far, and to look at how assessment might change in the future.
I hope you will join us,
You can register here
https://etf.blumm.it/event/ar/16/etf-webinar-on-summative-assessment
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