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ICT in Assessment and Learning: The Evolving Role of an External Examinations Board

In the world of ICT-led innovation, new styles of learning have an exciting image but assessment usually fails to raise much enthusiasm. And yet it is a vital component of education as a whole. In a paper given at a special QCA conference a year ago [1, Craven and Harding 2001], the interaction between assessment and learning was likened to a three-legged race, in which neither partner can make much progress without the other’s contribution. We therefore welcome the focus on assessment in this second SCROLLA symposium as recognition of this fact. A recent OECD report [2, OECD 2001] pays special attention to the interaction between assessment requirements and the undeveloped potential of ICT in learning.