Geoff Chapman
@geoffchapman.bsky.social
Digital exam sector since 1999. Creating, deploying, scouting for good practice. https://geoffchapman.com | Advisor to investors, solution providers, exam owners.
The Curriculum and Assessment Review – A sparkling mandate for digital exams or a complete washout?
Read how the Review clings to paper assessment, while struggling to comprehend assessing digital literacy and digital AI skills.
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Read how the Review clings to paper assessment, while struggling to comprehend assessing digital literacy and digital AI skills.
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The Curriculum and Assessment Review – A sparkling mandate for digital exams or a complete washout?
Brits expect fireworks on 5th November. But few from the digital exam and assessment sector expected pyrotechnics and revelations from the UK government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review, published t...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Curriculum and Assessment Review – A sparkling mandate for digital exams or a complete washout?
Read how the Review clings to paper assessment, while struggling to comprehend assessing digital literacy and digital AI skills.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/curric...
Read how the Review clings to paper assessment, while struggling to comprehend assessing digital literacy and digital AI skills.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/curric...
How did the UK Citizenship Test pioneer 20 years of online digital exams?
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How did the UK Citizenship Test pioneer 20 years of online digital exams?
20 years ago on November 1 2005, the UK Citizenship Test was launched. An online one-hour high-stakes exam, delivered across 90 independent test centres.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How did the UK Citizenship Test pioneer 20 years of online digital exams?
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What will happen as City & Guilds becomes a commercial company subsidiary? How appropriate was the 'easier and safer' sale option? Read how this deal is era-defining, but questions remain.
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How will the sale of City & Guilds impact the education sector?
The biggest UK assessment sector news story in 20 years. City & Guilds, synonymous with ‘the trades’ and vocational education, has been sold.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What will happen as City & Guilds becomes a commercial company subsidiary? How appropriate was the 'easier and safer' sale option? Read how this deal is era-defining, but questions remain.
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-sa...
Do exam owners declare their energy usage? Is the exam sector in denial about its energy usage? Read how AI and video assessment is causing a quantum leap in energy usage. And feel the irony that it's neither benchmarked nor measured!
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Do exam owners declare their energy usage?
I listened to Rita Bateson FRSA this week at the RM Assessment summit in London, and was struck that for the assessment sector, energy usage remains a critical issue, but still remains a niche topic. ...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Do exam owners declare their energy usage? Is the exam sector in denial about its energy usage? Read how AI and video assessment is causing a quantum leap in energy usage. And feel the irony that it's neither benchmarked nor measured!
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The exam sector is haunted by fears of fulfilling special accommodations, grappling with AI and evolving social norms. Read how this week's TPAC conference revealed the sector's concerns, but gave hope for the future. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a... via @LinkedIn
What are assessment professionals actually telling us?
A review of the TPAC assessment conference organised by Peridot Partners, Eintech, and Kaplan Assessments.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The exam sector is haunted by fears of fulfilling special accommodations, grappling with AI and evolving social norms. Read how this week's TPAC conference revealed the sector's concerns, but gave hope for the future. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a... via @LinkedIn
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My learned and very knowledgeable friend @geoffchapman.bsky.social taking part in the #TPAC conference discussing the overcoming the challenges of assessor and examiner recruitment to awarding organisations.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My learned and very knowledgeable friend @geoffchapman.bsky.social taking part in the #TPAC conference discussing the overcoming the challenges of assessor and examiner recruitment to awarding organisations.
A scramble to update - what does Digital Sovereignty mean for digital exams and e-assessment? www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-d...
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A scramble to update - what does Digital Sovereignty mean for digital exams and e-assessment? www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-d...
The e-Assessment Association Conference: an island of progress, innovation, and perseverance. But what next? www.linkedin.com/pulse/e-asse... via @LinkedIn
The e-Assessment Association Conference: an island of progress, innovation, and perseverance. But what next?
How far has the eAssessment Association come in its journey to advocate digital exams and assessment? Read about its success and what it needs to do next.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The e-Assessment Association Conference: an island of progress, innovation, and perseverance. But what next? www.linkedin.com/pulse/e-asse... via @LinkedIn
Is our love for a less-than-transparent world blighting trust in exams and assessment?
Read how digital exams and e-assessment are being held back by opacity, and our willingness to look the other way. www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-dig... via @LinkedIn
Read how digital exams and e-assessment are being held back by opacity, and our willingness to look the other way. www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-dig... via @LinkedIn
Do digital exams and e-assessment provide transparency?
People claim to want a transparent exam system. But do they really want it? Digital exams are transparent, but are people content with opacity?
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June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Is our love for a less-than-transparent world blighting trust in exams and assessment?
Read how digital exams and e-assessment are being held back by opacity, and our willingness to look the other way. www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-dig... via @LinkedIn
Read how digital exams and e-assessment are being held back by opacity, and our willingness to look the other way. www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-dig... via @LinkedIn
Can Multi-Modal Assessment sweep away the AI froth?
Read how a diverse basket of assessment instruments can increase objectivity, reduce risk, and maximise outcomes. linkedin.com/pulse/can-mu... via
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Read how a diverse basket of assessment instruments can increase objectivity, reduce risk, and maximise outcomes. linkedin.com/pulse/can-mu... via
Can Multi-Modal Assessment sweep away the AI froth?
How can Multi-Modal Assessment strengthen education and manage the encroachment of AI into exams?
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June 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Can Multi-Modal Assessment sweep away the AI froth?
Read how a diverse basket of assessment instruments can increase objectivity, reduce risk, and maximise outcomes. linkedin.com/pulse/can-mu... via
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Read how a diverse basket of assessment instruments can increase objectivity, reduce risk, and maximise outcomes. linkedin.com/pulse/can-mu... via
England's school exam system doesn't work for learners.
Latest blog discusses if it has Jumped The Shark and what can be done to improve it.
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Latest blog discusses if it has Jumped The Shark and what can be done to improve it.
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Why does the school exam system not work for us any more? Has it Jumped The Shark?
What are the reasons for England's exam system not working to benefit learners?
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June 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
England's school exam system doesn't work for learners.
Latest blog discusses if it has Jumped The Shark and what can be done to improve it.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do...
Latest blog discusses if it has Jumped The Shark and what can be done to improve it.
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Let's banish those digital exam myths. 15 fallacies debunked in this new blog. www.linkedin.com/pulse/dispel...
Dispelling 15 Myths of Digital School Exams
Which myths about school digital exams can be dispelled?
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June 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Let's banish those digital exam myths. 15 fallacies debunked in this new blog. www.linkedin.com/pulse/dispel...
Is Ofqual worth £2M? How an expanded remit and higher quality threshold could make it even better value.
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Is Ofqual worth £2M?
By expanding its remit and raising a quality bar for exam owners, Ofqual can lift assessment quality across all government enabled assessment programmes.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Is Ofqual worth £2M? How an expanded remit and higher quality threshold could make it even better value.
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Cyber criminal hostage negotiators, bungling Victorians, April 1 bike exams, and influencers on their exam journey.
Here are the half-year stories from the digital exam sector!
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Here are the half-year stories from the digital exam sector!
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June 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cyber criminal hostage negotiators, bungling Victorians, April 1 bike exams, and influencers on their exam journey.
Here are the half-year stories from the digital exam sector!
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Here are the half-year stories from the digital exam sector!
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Too many England educators catastrophise about digital, while their schools pay huge sums to compensate for inadequate (re)marking of paper scripts. And complain bitterly about halls and rooms being out of bounds for weeks.
Countries that already do digital are pointing and laughing.
Countries that already do digital are pointing and laughing.
One of England’s main education union leaders has warned against “an excess of caution” preventing the rollout of digital exams. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Warning over ‘excess of caution’ in introducing digital exams
Concerns raised about the wait for on-screen assessment after AQA chief tells Tes that digital exams in a major subject are not expected until 2035 at earliest
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May 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Too many England educators catastrophise about digital, while their schools pay huge sums to compensate for inadequate (re)marking of paper scripts. And complain bitterly about halls and rooms being out of bounds for weeks.
Countries that already do digital are pointing and laughing.
Countries that already do digital are pointing and laughing.
Has the UK awarding body and assessment sector just had its 'Ratner' moment?
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When Leaders Undermine Their Sector: A 'Ratner' Moment in Exam Awarding?
What happens when a sector leader 'Does a Ratner' and degrades his own company's qualifications?
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May 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Has the UK awarding body and assessment sector just had its 'Ratner' moment?
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Over 25 years of high stakes digital exam delivery in the UK. This is the story of one big volume digital test that re-shaped test design and delivery for learners to maximise impact. Delivered every working day. To over 750k learners a year.
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25 years of the Construction Health and Safety (Digital) Test
In April 2000, a high stakes, invigilated digital exam was launched in the UK, showing that nationwide impactful, large-scale delivery can also enhance safety.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Over 25 years of high stakes digital exam delivery in the UK. This is the story of one big volume digital test that re-shaped test design and delivery for learners to maximise impact. Delivered every working day. To over 750k learners a year.
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Is Comparative Judgement really 'the gold standard' of human judgement?
Fascinating study that used crowd-sourced non-experts vs. expert raters.
Tl;DR "Non-expert raters were reliable, and their scores were moderately correlated with expert ratings."
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Fascinating study that used crowd-sourced non-experts vs. expert raters.
Tl;DR "Non-expert raters were reliable, and their scores were moderately correlated with expert ratings."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Assessing writing quality using crowdsourced non-expert comparative judgement ratings
This study examines the potential to use non-expert, crowd-sourced raters to score essays by comparing expert raters’ and crowd-sourced raters’ assessments of writing quality. Expert raters and cro...
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March 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Is Comparative Judgement really 'the gold standard' of human judgement?
Fascinating study that used crowd-sourced non-experts vs. expert raters.
Tl;DR "Non-expert raters were reliable, and their scores were moderately correlated with expert ratings."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fascinating study that used crowd-sourced non-experts vs. expert raters.
Tl;DR "Non-expert raters were reliable, and their scores were moderately correlated with expert ratings."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blog: Who moved my cheese? How should change be handled for England's assessment system?
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Who moved my cheese? How should change be handled for England's assessment system?
Change. How to handle it in life, love, and work is possibly our greatest challenge.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Blog: Who moved my cheese? How should change be handled for England's assessment system?
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How lovely to see a UK press article mention psychometrics. First one I've seen in 25+ years. But sadly, exam length is not an indicator of reliability. Never let an economist anywhere near the construction of a high stakes exam.
'The inspectorate is caught between the political rock of a manifesto commitment and the psychometric hard place of inspection validity'
How many times should Ofsted 'rethink' a bad idea?
Its current proposals are ill-conceived - but so is the very idea of more data for school accountability
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March 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
How lovely to see a UK press article mention psychometrics. First one I've seen in 25+ years. But sadly, exam length is not an indicator of reliability. Never let an economist anywhere near the construction of a high stakes exam.
When a society believes summative exams is the only way, this is the behaviour it drives.
Westerners often patronise and lecture on exam malpractice - but they're often blissfully unaware of the criminality and 'soft' exam cheating that goes on in their own country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Westerners often patronise and lecture on exam malpractice - but they're often blissfully unaware of the criminality and 'soft' exam cheating that goes on in their own country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NEET: How exam scandals are tainting India's most competitive tests
Paper leaks have plunged India's exams into chaos, jeopardising the careers of millions of aspirants.
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March 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
When a society believes summative exams is the only way, this is the behaviour it drives.
Westerners often patronise and lecture on exam malpractice - but they're often blissfully unaware of the criminality and 'soft' exam cheating that goes on in their own country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Westerners often patronise and lecture on exam malpractice - but they're often blissfully unaware of the criminality and 'soft' exam cheating that goes on in their own country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blog: Why is recognition of digital exams still elusive? Why does trad media still indulge assessment heritage acts, such as handwriting hobbyists and manuscript martyrs?
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The future of school digital exams and assessment?
Explore the future of school exams and assessment with insights from the 2025 Next Generation Assessment Conference. Discover how school exams are evolving.
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February 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Blog: Why is recognition of digital exams still elusive? Why does trad media still indulge assessment heritage acts, such as handwriting hobbyists and manuscript martyrs?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...
Blog: Why is removing Maths and English from England’s apprenticeships so problematic?
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Why is removing Maths and English from England’s apprenticeships so problematic?
Explore why removing Maths and English from England’s apprenticeships is problematic.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Blog: Why is removing Maths and English from England’s apprenticeships so problematic?
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Smudgy, sweaty palms. Inelegant phalange bumps. Paper cuts. 7 different items crammed into a dusty case. Dysgraphia and dyslexia worries.
Do yourself a favour, forget Laszlo Biro, and tell the exam owner you take your exams on-screen.
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Do yourself a favour, forget Laszlo Biro, and tell the exam owner you take your exams on-screen.
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Best pens for exams that won't let you down
Smudge-proof instruments which promote better legibility selected by a seasoned exam-taker
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December 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Smudgy, sweaty palms. Inelegant phalange bumps. Paper cuts. 7 different items crammed into a dusty case. Dysgraphia and dyslexia worries.
Do yourself a favour, forget Laszlo Biro, and tell the exam owner you take your exams on-screen.
www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esb...
Do yourself a favour, forget Laszlo Biro, and tell the exam owner you take your exams on-screen.
www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esb...
"Digital assessment is always held to a higher standard than analogue...it shines a harsh light on sub-optimal practice. That makes some people extremely uncomfortable."
Me on the Victvs Podcast reviewing some of the 2024 sector stories, trends, and future predictions.
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Me on the Victvs Podcast reviewing some of the 2024 sector stories, trends, and future predictions.
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The VICTVS Podcast: Revision Notes - December
YouTube video by VICTVS
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December 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
"Digital assessment is always held to a higher standard than analogue...it shines a harsh light on sub-optimal practice. That makes some people extremely uncomfortable."
Me on the Victvs Podcast reviewing some of the 2024 sector stories, trends, and future predictions.
youtu.be/BaGwE4CFnhs?...
Me on the Victvs Podcast reviewing some of the 2024 sector stories, trends, and future predictions.
youtu.be/BaGwE4CFnhs?...