{"id":695,"date":"2009-05-25T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/05\/25\/e-assessment-as-default\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T13:32:00","slug":"e-assessment-as-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/e-assessment-as-default\/","title":{"rendered":"E-assessment as default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended an internal SQA staff update session this morning and one of the key messages coming out of it was that e-assessment &#8220;should be the default position&#8221; for new qualifications. In other words, rather than justify its use, we should justify when it&#8217;s not used. By and large, we&#8217;re still producing paper assessments &#8211; and sometimes assessments that are actually barriers to e-assessment &#8211; so this is important news.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to produce some guidance for my assessment exemplar writers to illustrate how, in Computing, we can put this into practice. For example, on Saturday I attended a training event for writers of assessments for the new HND Interactive Media units so this is a good opportunity to put this into practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended an internal SQA staff update session this morning and one of the key messages coming out of it was that e-assessment &#8220;should be the default position&#8221; for new qualifications. In other words, rather than justify its use, we should justify when it&#8217;s not used. By and large, we&#8217;re still producing paper assessments &#8211; and sometimes assessments that are actually barriers to e-assessment &#8211; so this is important news. I plan to produce some guidance for my assessment exemplar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}