Comparative Pairs Masterclass
Professor Richard Kimbell and Karim Derrick
Comparative Pairs
Comparative Judgement offers a radical transformation of assessment and through it, teaching and learning. Using Thurstone's Law of Comparative Pairs, judges are offered up pairs of student scripts and asked to judge one over the other. The system in the background uses the result of each judgement to determine which pair of scripts to show the next judge and, as the process continues, to build and refine a scaled rank order of scripts based on the judge's collective judgements.
The people we have worked with on comparative judgements to date have found the experience to be liberating, not least because the process demands of them their professional opinion (rather than their ability to imitate a chief examiner) but also because it is not just one person's judgement that determines the students' value but the judgments of maybe 20 professionals. And because judging is a holistic approach, the need for teachers to train students to meet criterion, to teach to the test, evaporates as they instead help them become more 'developed' scientists, writers, designers etc."
Biographies
Professor Richard Kimbell, Design Department, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Richard founded the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) in 1990 and has directed many research projects for various clients e.g. Research Councils (e.g. ESRC), government departments (e.g. DfID, DfES, DCSF), industry (e.g. LEGO), charitable bodies (e.g. NESTA), Design and Science museums in London and professional organisations (e.g. Engineering Council). Projects have also been run with overseas agencies including the National Science Foundation in the USA, the NationalAcademies in Washington, the North West Province Curriculum Council in South Africa, and the West Australia Curriculum Council. His workis typically centered on aspects of creativity, curriculum and assessment in schools. Richard also teaches design students and Design and Technology student teachers, supervises higher degree students, authors many books and papers, and is a consultant for huge range of related to Design and Technology Education initiatives internationally.
Karim Derrick, Development Director, TAG Developments (a division of BLI Education Ltd)
Karim Derrick, a former Secondary Maths Curriculum Manager and online education community developer, has been a key member of BLI’s development and creative team for the past eight years with the responsibility for driving all development across the group's onshore and offshore development teams. As BLI’s Development Director, Karim has represented BLI at international ePortfolio conferences, on industry technical working groups and has been involved in all of BLI’s high stakes assessment development projects. As an ePortfolio and evidence based assessment advocate he has created and developed the BLI MAPs suite of products for clients including OCR, AQA and Edexcel. He has also driven the development of British Standards Institution (BSI) standard BS8518, aiming to make interoperable accreditation and school systems to facilitate digital submission of evidence.