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Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change Gillian Cooke Group Archivist CAN Seminar, Oct 2013 Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change University, Syndics and Examiners Examinations - Administration and

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Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change

Gillian Cooke Group Archivist CAN Seminar, Oct 2013

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Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change

  • University, Syndics and Examiners
  • Examinations - Administration and

Technology

  • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
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University and Vice Chancellor

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The Syndicate

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Syndics and Examiners

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Examining

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Examiners

We spent as much as three weeks in Downing College doing a review. Nowadays, if you’re required for more than 3 – 4 days, it’s

  • unusual. PK
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Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change

  • University, Syndics and Examiners
  • Examinations - Administration and

Technology

  • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
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The Cambridge Locals

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1918 Regulations – First year of School Certificate

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The General Certificate in Education

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Processing Candidate Results

Another job was plotting the marks on graphs for calculating the grade

  • boundaries. We had a sheet of graph

paper and a pencil and two people would sit somewhere quiet because you had to really concentrate …. P.D

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Accounts

Same sorts of issues… Still use teachers, still mark them, we still have to pay them, we still have the issues about that sort of thing. BF 2013

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Developing Technology

Computerisation took off in the early 1960’s … and led to an increase in staff rather than a

  • decrease. At first everyone

worried that they would lose their jobs to computers!

RB

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Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change

  • University, Syndics and Examiners
  • Examinations - Administration and

Technology

  • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
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Charting Growth

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Diversity

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Overseas Examinations

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Localisation

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The legacy of

  • ther boards
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Corporate Changes

…We were all running exams. There’s all… the basic, same

sorts of things happening… they were all slightly different but the basic structure is all the same sorts of things…. Back from CSE boards right through to now… , I can still see similarities, between some of the boards, … the basics are still there, they’re still exams. We still print the papers, most of them… We were printing papers then, we’re still printing papers now. B.F, 2013