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Standards in national examinations: What do they mean?

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Jo­ Anne Baird, Director of Department of  Education, University of Oxford and Dennis Opposs, Ofqual, give a seminar for the Department of Education public seminar series.
Processes of standard setting and maintaining within  curriculum­ related assessments form a key strand of educational assessment policies and programmes, and  debates about standards are often at the heart of  educational reform. Many countries use curriculum­ related examinations to select  learners for higher education, work and other study options.  Some countries also use these examinations as tools to  measure school system performance.

Given the high stakes nature of these examinations, it is  surprising that the ways in which examination standards are  conceptualised and operationalised differently across nations  has not been given sufficient attention. This is an interesting  area because globalisation has begun to impinge on  examination systems, but public examination standards are  still largely a bastion of the local. The meaning of standards  varies between countries and the stated value positions and  processes relating to examination standards differ markedly.  Additionally, the processes used to set examination standards  vary greatly between countries. The public seminar will present some of the findings from a  joint project on Setting and Maintaining standards in national  examinations. As part of the project, a three­ day symposium  was held in Brasenose College, Oxford in March of this year.  Experts from around the world came together to discuss the  setting and maintaining of standards in national  examinations. The project aims to illuminate similarities and  differences in conceptual bases and operational approaches to  examination standards. In this presentation, we will focus  upon the different ways in which examination standards have  been defined and outline current work on an ecological model  that shows promise in making the current literature more  coherent.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Jo­ Anne Baird
Dennis Opposs
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teaching
exams
education
schools
colleges
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 09/05/2017
Duration: 00:49:21

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The Remedy: Introduction

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The Remedy
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In this short podcast, Naomi Richman introduces the series, 'The Remedy' by offering some history and context to contemporary discussions about health and healing.

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The Remedy
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Naomi Richman
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Health
healing
spirituality
religion
Medicine
science
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 08/05/2017
Duration: 00:03:34

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What happened to the first soviet scientist to solve a fundamental problem in mathematics?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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New episode for the Oxford Sparks Big questions series.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Christopher Hollings
Keywords
science
Cold War
Russia
america
maths
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 08/05/2017
Duration: 00:12:36

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Why Facebook matters and what you need to know about digital

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Esra Dogramaci, Senior Digital Editor, Deutsche Welle, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Esra Dogramaci
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journalism
social media
facebook
digital
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 08/05/2017
Duration: 00:31:59

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The Remedy: Hinduism

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The Remedy
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In this episode, Naomi Richman interviews Matthew Martin, a DPhil student at of Oxford whose work focuses on Hindu traditions. They discuss the great variety of Hindu approaches to healing, from ayuverda to yoga and deliverance from evil spirits.

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The Remedy
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Naomi Richman
Matthew Martin
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Health
healing
ritual
ayuverda
hinduism
india
nepal
yoga
meditation
evil spirits
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 08/05/2017
Duration: 00:12:21

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Behavioral Economics and Global Public Goods and Global Commons

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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Professor van Aaken's main research areas are international law with a special focus on international economic law and its interaction with other areas of international law, (international) legal theory, (behavioural) law and economics.

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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Anne van Aaken
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public international law
international economic law
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 04/05/2017
Duration: 00:46:54

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Director Wayne Jordan discusses Oedipus (Abbey Theatre 2015)

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
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The Abbey Theatre's artistic director Wayne Jordan talks to Professor Fiona Macintosh, about his acclaimed 2015 production of Sophocles' Oedipus.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
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Wayne Jordan
Fiona Macintosh
Keywords
theatre
classics
classical reception
drama
oedipus
directing
Greek theatre
Department: Faculty of Classics
Date Added: 03/05/2017
Duration: 01:07:49

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Dr Lisa Schwartz and Dr Steven Woloshin

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Trust the Evidence
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Professor Carl Heneghan in conversation with Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, and Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Professors of Medicine, of Community and Family Medicine, and Co-Directors of Medicine and the Media Programs at The Dartmouth Institute.
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, in conversation with Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, and Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Professors of Medicine, of Community and Family Medicine, and Co-Directors of Medicine and the Media Programs at The Dartmouth Insititute.

Trust the Evidence is a new podcast series presenting conversations with individuals interested in improving healthcare through the use of better evidence.

Send us your thoughts and feedback: cebm@phc.ox.ac.uk.

Edited and produced by Alice Rollinson.

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Trust the Evidence
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Lisa Schwartz
Steven Woloshin
Carl Heneghan
Keywords
evidence based medicine
statistics
risk
Department: Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Date Added: 03/05/2017
Duration: 00:13:29

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Statistical methods used to map malaria and other infectious diseases

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Malaria Atlas Project
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Ewan Cameron and Sam Bhatt from the Nuffield Department of Population Health discuss statistical methods used to map malaria and other infectious diseases.

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Malaria Atlas Project
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Ewan Cameron
Sam Bhatt
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Health
Medicine
malaria
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 28/04/2017
Duration: 00:48:48

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Malaria Atlas Project

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Malaria Atlas Project
Featuring researchers from the Malaria Atlas Project at the University of Oxford, this series of podcasts looks at some of the statistical methods that can be used to model malaria and other infectious diseases globally, as well as statistical modelling more generally.

The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) brings together researchers based around the world with expertise in a wide range of disciplines from public health to mathematics, geography and epidemiology. Their task is to generate new and innovative methods of mapping malaria risk, ultimately to produce a comprehensive range of maps and estimates that will support effective planning of malaria control at national and international scales.

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