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4 Feb 2022: sciences considered that this year’s exams reflected the overall difficulties with moving practicals. ... without online proctoring), retained handwritten exams which were scanned by the student and.

13 Sep 2022: Whilst, of course, some exam stress is natural, the alarmingly high-stakes format of these exams has a disproportionately deleterious effect on student wellbeing. ... Assessment practices that are not traditional exams - i.e., diversified assessment

4 Mar 2022: The provision of alternatives to exams on all courses was strongly supported as a solution to this problem. ... More than half indicated that they would choose non-exam based assessment over exams, were they given the choice by their Faculty, believing

13 Sep 2022: Instead, participants seemed to point to the social-economic background as another factor that contributes to these huge awarding gaps. ... not want to disadvantage my students in their preparation for exams.” (Staff, Arts/Humanities).

20 Sep 2022: education, socio-economic background or other intersecting variables including gender. In Cambridge, the Business Information Team1 (BIT, 2020) undertook detailed statistical analyses of. ... was identified as a key cause for differences in progression).

13 Sep 2022: However, there was no consensus: the burden of designing new assessments and perhaps teaching approaches, the plethora of ways students learn versus the simplicity of a traditional exam, and proving academic

4 Mar 2022: In particular, Cambridge's rigorous personalised formative feedback in supervisions and emphasis on high-stakes end-of-year exams invites a clearer shared understanding of the connections between formative assessment (usually

1 Feb 2022: It includes guidance from the General Medical Council, interactive examples and a series of practice Situational Judgement Test questions (which feature in the final-year exam on professionalism).

4 Mar 2022: An examination (exam) is one kind of assessment task, delivered under controlled conditions most often at the end of the teaching period. ... tasks, which might be exams or another mode of assessment.

1 Feb 2022: It attracted over 80 participants despite being held in exam term and advertised only internally.