Ed. Space (Episode 2): Mary Richardson - Teacher trust and educational assessment in the wake of COVID-19

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Welcome to the third-recorded but second-released episode of Ed. Space. In this episode – recorded 27 April 2020 – Neil, Lewis, and Oli speak with Mary Richardson, Associate Professor of Educational Assessment at UCL’s Institute of Education. Our conversation focussed primarily on educational assessment and the national examinations system, and the possible implications for these during and in the wake of this COVID-19 pandemic.

Mary’s faculty pagecan be accessed here(from there, you’ll be able to follow up her academic publications).

Here’s an article Mary wrote for The Guardian last year, published as the 2019 A Level results came out.

Here’s a link to a blog Mary posted (the same day as our conversation), on assessment, trust, and the pandemic.

Mary’s Twitter handle is @miriched. (She is, in her own words, always interested in constructive bickering online.)

Here’s a link to the Ofqual’s documents on assessment arrangements for the period of lockdown.