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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


  1. Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change Gillian Cooke Group Archivist CAN Seminar, Oct 2013

  2. Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change • University, Syndics and Examiners • Examinations - Administration and Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas

  3. University and Vice Chancellor

  4. The Syndicate

  5. Syndics and Examiners

  6. Examining

  7. 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

  8. Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change • University, Syndics and Examiners • Examinations - Administration and Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas

  9. The Cambridge Locals

  10. 1918 Regulations – First year of School Certificate

  11. The General Certificate in Education

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change • University, Syndics and Examiners • Examinations - Administration and Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas

  16. Charting Growth

  17. Diversity

  18. Overseas Examinations

  19. Localisation

  20. The legacy of other boards

  21. 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

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