Recordings from this event are now available online.
Assessment in History: Reassessing the purpose and future of assessment in the study of History
Saturday 8th October 2022
via MS Teams
10:00-10:10 Welcome and Introduction
10:10-11:00 A-Levels and Transitions to University
- David Brown (Cadbury Sixth Form College and University of Birmingham): Reappraising the Purpose of Assessment in History: A-levels
- Sarah Jones and Hannah Charnock (University of Bristol): Assessment and the Transition from School to University Learning
11:00-11:10 Short Break
11:10-12:00 Creative Assessment
- Sarah Holland (University of Nottingham): Rethinking Assessment: Creative Approaches in the Humanities
- Lucie Matthew-Jones (Liverpool John Moores): Creativity for Inclusion: Empowering the Margins
12:00-12:45 Break
12:45-14:00 Skills and Employability
- Jonathan Durrant (University of South Wales): Embedding Employability in the History Curriculum: A Decade of Experiment and Practice
- Manuela Williams (University of Strathclyde): Using reflective assessment to embed employability in History
- Carl Watts (United States Air Force, Global College of Professional Military Education): Assessing “Applied” History in Professional Military Education
- Jon Chandler (UCL): History Skills Passport Project
14:00-14:10 Short Break
14:10-15:00 Digital skills
- Ian Whitehead and Ruth Larsen (University of Derby): Employing Digital Tools to Support Continual Assessment
- Monica Fernandes (Brunel University London): The power of pre-recorded presentations and primary source analysis
15:00-15:25 The end of exams?
- Marcus Collins (Loughborough University) and Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln): The end of the sit-down exam? Student and Staff Preferences for assessment
15:25-15:45 Roundtable: The future of history assessment – final thoughts and reflections