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As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into our charitable activities and the education system. It funds our cutting-edge research, which sits at the heart of our assessments.  \nWe recently welcomed leading education service AlphaPlus, AI-powered maths platform Blutick, EPQ management system Project Q and innovative VTQ provider Training Qualifications UK to the AQA Group family as part of our work to support the skills agenda, harness digital technology and help teachers and students realise their potential.  \nExecutive summary  \nAQA is excited about the potential for reform to further improve assessment and qualifications in the UK, and welcomes the opportunity to feed in evidence and insight into this inquiry. We are also delighted that the inquiry has asked to hear from the student chair of our Student Advisory Group.  \nOur evidence submission focuses both on areas in need of change, as well as defending the role of some existing aspects of the system. We support the growing consensus calling for considered reform of the system, rather than revolutionary change – which isn’t what students or busy teachers want, and for which little evidence exists that it would make things better.  \nWe focus on the following key themes as part of our evidence:  \n• The potential role for on-screen assessment to improve the experience of students;  \n• The importance of combining a knowledge-rich curriculum with an assessment of core life skills;  \n• The need to keep assessment fair and equitable, which evidence suggests is most easily achieved through the use of externally assessed examinations;  \n• The need to listen directly to the voice of students, whose views on exams are not what you might expect.  \nOn-screen assessment  \nWe believe any inquiry looking into the future of assessment should consider the importance of digital technology – and what role traditional pen and paper exams will have in the future.  \nResearch shows that there is considerable consensus among school leaders, teachers, students and the public that, while there are some obstacles, moving towards on-screen examination (OSE) is the future.  \nIn our first pilot of OSE in 21 state funded schools we undertook focus groups with teachers and students afterwards to gauge their views. There was support for OSE across all types of centre; and, interestingly, this support was strongest among lower performing schools.  \nWe believe OSE has the potential to boost accessibility in the exam system – mitigating hesitation from some SEND pupils who are entitled to use a computer but don’t do so for fear of standing out, allowing for coloured backgrounds for candidates with dyslexia, and facilitating large fonts, text-tospeech and speech-to-text for those who need it.  \nToday’s young people are digital natives , entering a workforce where computer use is ubiquitous. Innovative assessment methodologies can bring assessments up to date with the wider world and deliver benefits to both students and teachers. Far from simply moving existing exams ‘behind glass’, OSE could allow students to interact with their test and simulate what they will encounter in higher education and the world of work. A move towards OSE allows for new types of questions to come to the fore, making better use of multimedia: from manipulatable 3D models of molecules in chemistry to video sources of the Berlin wall falling in history.  \nFurthermore, challenging problems could be presented to students in order to test complex skills such as decision making and problem solving. It has been argued that these skills will be  \nincreasingly important in the future of work as technology becomes more embedded in the  \nworkforce.  \nOSE have the potential to provide rich data and insights for teachers, schools","cbCaipq6h5bhWe02","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipq6h5bhWe02","pdf",210101,"English","# Executive summary\n## On-screen assessment\n## Fair and equitable assessment\n## Listening to students' views\n## Challenges and barriers (digital divide)","[{\"question\":\"What reform approach does AQA support for assessment and qualifications in the UK?\",\"answer\":\"AQA supports considered reform that improves assessment and qualifications, rather than revolutionary change, and emphasizes evidence for what will make things better.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the submission describe the benefits of on-screen assessment (OSE)?\",\"answer\":\"It argues OSE can improve accessibility, support digital-native learners, enable interactive assessments with multimedia and complex skills, and provide rich data for formative and national insights.\"},{\"question\":\"What obstacles to OSE does the submission highlight?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights the digital divide and unequal access to technology, along with the need for classroom technology use, connectivity improvements where required, and space constraints in schools.\"}]","APPG for Schools, Learning and Assessment inquiry into assessment reform - Evidence submission - February 2023 | PDF",1792463723,18]