John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. Dylan’s academic work is focused on the use of assessment to support learning. A leader in formative assessment, he explains that testing can go beyond just measuring a student’s learning as it can also be used to [...] Read More... The post Episode 30 – Assessment Luminary, Dylan Wiliam, University College London appeared first on Questionmark.

John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Isabel Nisbet, Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Isabel discusses the two fundamentals of fairness, the importance of public confidence in educational assessment and shares her thoughts on the steady push for test-optional college admissions in the US. [...] Read More... The post Episode 29 – Assessment Luminary, Isabel Nisbet, University of Cambridge appeared first on Questionmark.

John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary Siddhartha Gupta, CEO of Mercer | Mettl. Over the course of his career, Sid held key leadership positions at some of the most prestigious global IT companies. It was during that time that he discovered the niche of assessments and eventually moved to Mercer | Mettl. Sid shares [...] Read More... The post Episode 27 – Assessment Luminary, Siddhartha Gupta, Mercer | Mettl Copy appeared first on Questionmark.

John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary Sid Gupta, CEO of Mercer Mettl. Over the course of his career, Sid held key leadership positions at some of the most prestigious global IT companies. It was during that time that he discovered the niche of assessments and eventually moved to Mettl. Sid shares his opinion on [...] Read More... The post Episode 27 – Assessment Luminary, Sid Gupta, Mercer Mettl appeared first on Questionmark.

John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary Suzanne Heiob, the Global Certification Product Owner of SAP, who began her journey with the company as a student. Among her responsibilities, she oversees the product roadmap and keeps an eye on market trends to ensure that they are adopted into the program. Suzanne shares her thoughts on [...] Read More... The post Episode 26 – Assessment Luminary, Suzanne Heiob, SAP appeared first on Questionmark.

Posted by John Kleeman Podcasts are a great way to communicate. They can be more informal than a webinar, have more information than a blog post and are a much more fun way to learn than an e-book. You can listen to them in your home, when travelling or whenever convenient. Unfortunately few of us [...] Read More...

Posted by Kristin Bernor Welcome to Questionmark’s new podcast series, “Unlocking the Potential of Assessments.” This monthly series delves into creating, delivering and reporting on valid and reliable assessments. “Unlocking the Potential of Assessments” will offer advice and thought leadership to those just starting out with assessments, those who have been in the industry at [...] Read More...

Posted by Julie Delazyn The growing emphasis on performance improvement — of which training is just a part — calls for new strategies for assessment and evaluation. Measurement and evaluation specialist Dr. Bruce C. Aaron has devoted a lot of thought to this. His white paper, Alignment, Impact and Measurement with the A-model, describes a framework for aligning assessment and evaluation with an [...] Read More...

Posted by Joan Phaup We recently celebrated a major expansion of our cloud-based Questionmark OnDemand service with the addition of Questionmark’s European Data Centre to the service we have been providing for some time in the United States. Wanting to learn more about the reasons for adding the new data centre, I spoke with Questionmark Chairman John Kleeman about the transition many [...] Read More...

Posted by Joan Phaup I’m eagerly looking forward to the keynote presentation Charles Jennings will deliver at the Questionmark 2013 Users Conference on The Challenge of Measuring Informal and Workplace Learning. Charles is one of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in learning and development — currently head of Duntroon Associates and previously Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and [...] Read More...