Second Symposium Research into Computer Assisted Assessment

TIMETABLE - 6^th February 2002

Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, EDINBURGH

10:00 - 10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30 - 10:45     Opening Address

Roy Leitch, Assistant Principal, Heriot-Watt University

10:45 - 11:30     Fit-for-purpose assessment: implications for CAA?

Sally Brown, Director, The Institute of Learning and Teaching

11:30 - 12:00     Panel and General discussion

12:00 - 12:30     Interoperability: Future-proofing CAA

Niall Sclater,Manager, Educational Systems, Strathclyde University

12:30 - 12:45     Question time

12:45 - 13:45     Lunch inthe Bistro

13:45 - 14:30     I C T in Assessment and Learning

Robert Harding, Director, Interactive Technologies in Assessment and Learning, University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

14:30 - 15:00     Panel and General discussion

15:00 - 15:15     Coffee

15:15 - 15:45     Does the medium have an effect on assessment?

George McGuire, Martin Youngson, Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University and Douglas McMillan, Scottish Qualifications Authority

15:45 - 16:00      Question time

16:00 - 16:15      Summary and impressions