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 Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
University and Vice Chancellor
The Syndicate
Syndics and Examiners
Examining
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
Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change • University, Syndics and Examiners • Examinations - Administration and Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
The Cambridge Locals
1918 Regulations – First year of School Certificate
The General Certificate in Education
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
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
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
Cambridge Assessment Archives: Continuity and Change • University, Syndics and Examiners • Examinations - Administration and Technology • Expansion – Regions and Overseas
Charting Growth
Diversity
Overseas Examinations
Localisation
The legacy of other boards
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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