Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding
BERA Council has agreed to establish an expert panel to investigate the situation regarding funding for educational research in the UK. David James (Cardiff University, and chair of the REF 2021...
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Jo-Anne Baird, Professor
Professor of Educational Assessment at Oxford University
Jo-Anne Baird is Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. She has been Head of the Department of Education at Oxford, Standing Adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee, a member of Ofqual’s Standing Advisory Group on Standards, Chair of the National Reference Test Expert Group, and a member of the Welsh Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Group and the Scottish Government’s Independent Review Group. Jo-Anne held academic posts at the Institute of Education (London) and the University of Bristol. In 2019 she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bergen.
Jo-Anne Baird's contributions
What are we educating for? Education policymaking in England
Education represents no less than our vision of society, and the people in it. It represents values. How education policy is made tells us about whose values are prioritised, what sources of...
Continue reading blog postPresident Roundtable Seminar Series: Equitable, Reliable High Stakes Assessment: a possible dream?
Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_PresRT @BERANews Lead: Louise Hayward, Professor, University of Glasgow BERA...
President Roundtable Seminar Series: Equitable, Reliable High Stakes Assessment: a possible dream?
BERA Presidential Roundtables provide compelling research reviews offering a state-of-the-art position on topics that are of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy makers and wider...
High standards, not high stakes: An alternative to SATs that would transform England’s testing and school accountability system in primary education and beyond
Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_HighStandards @BERANews This webinar introduces a series of proposals, published in a new...
High standards, not high stakes: An alternative to SATs that would transform England’s testing and school accountability system in primary education and beyond
Link to Report This webinar introduces a series of proposals, published in a new BERA report, from the BERA expert panel on assessment to replace England’s punitive high-stakes testing and...
Practical science and pandemics
As the whole planet finds itself engulfed in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the public needs to be well equipped with the skills to deal with scientific...
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