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Proceedings for 10th CAA Conference 2006

Foreword

Welcome to the tenth International CAA Conference at Loughborough University.

As I look back over the history of the event I feel honoured to have worked with so many enthusiasts, experts, commercial attendees and delegates. I do feel that together, through this event, we have made a significant contribution to the field now widely known as e-Assessment.

CAA Conference continues to attract, develop and host the largest body of continuous research into e-Assessment that I am aware of. This year we have a full two day programme of quality double blind refereed papers from a wide and diverse representation of stakeholders. I would like to thank our Advisory Panel for their contributions in guiding the selection of papers for 2006, and creating what promises to be an excellent and intellectually stimulating event.

Within this book of proceedings you will find contributions from Awarding Bodies, Higher Education, Research Committees, National Projects, along with international initiatives from America, Australia, Canada, Holland, Poland and the Republic of Macedonia.

Topics reported are diverse, ranging from the delivery of mobile assessments, accessibility issues, item banking, service oriented architecture approaches, national case studies, and much more. This year the programme has been loosely ‘themed’ to give an indication of the areas being covered and my thanks go to John Sargeant for assisting with this aspect.

Last year the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announced a number of national initiatives in the e-Assessment area and this year return on Day Two to report progress.

There is genuine cross sector activity in the e-Assessment area, but I feel that divergence prevails. We have a great deal to learn from one another. For example our commercial partners are responsible for some of the largest high stakes e-Assessment activities occurring globally. As an attempt to encourage knowledge transfer I have included abstracts of the commercial presentations in this book and I hope delegates will take the opportunity to benefit from their experiences.

I offer a special thanks to QuestionMark who this year have generously sponsored our Steam Train evening event and conference bags.

I strive to improve our reputation, improve the quality of our content and disseminate our findings. To this end I am very pleased to announce that a collaboration between CAA Conference and the Taylor and Francis journal ‘Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education’ (AEHE) has been agreed.

The Joanna Bull Prize for best paper will be announced at the event and publicised on the conference web site (www.caaconference.com).

Lastly, a plea to our following of repeat attendees - do please engage with those new to CAA Conference. With your help I’m sure we can generate a stimulating atmosphere of information exchange (and have some fun)!

Enjoy the conference.

Myles Danson
July 2006