Developing a robust, online, remote assessment solution for international students to increase opportunities to access Higher Education institutions in the UK

NCC Education是英国教育的一个奖励组织和全球提供商。创新基金将用于开发一种强大的远程评估方法，满足监管机构的要求，同时允许来自不同地理和社会经济背景的学生获得评估，包括数字基础设施脆弱的学生。这将使来自世界各地的学生能够参加评估，由于全球教育领域的直接变化，主要是最近的新冠肺炎危机及其对跨国教育的影响，全球数百万学生不再能够在传统和严格的“考试中心/大厅”条件下进行评估;被许多英国大学和高等教育机构认为是可以接受的。目前全球几乎所有的评估中心都关闭了，迫切需要一个全球在线评估解决方案，由于许多国际学生现在无法通过传统的评估方法进入英国高等教育。NCC教育旨在通过开发在线，强大的监考方法来挑战这一点，研究结果将成为英国和国际教育机构的案例研究，并将作为最佳实践与超过156个Moodle社区共享，在线评估方法和开发将与NCC Education在全球50多个国家的180个认证合作伙伴中心合作。与目前的远程评估方法（如下载问题和上传答案）不同，该项目将保留传统考试方法的原则;采用稳健和经过验证的方法。在不影响评估完整性的情况下，学生将可以访问远程评估环境，在那里他们可以发挥最佳能力。虽然在线监考在英国越来越流行，但在国际市场上，它是学生评估的障碍[\[EC 1\]][0]。许多国家正在尝试采用这种方法，它们更喜欢传统的评估。目前还没有一种被普遍接受的方法，它足够强大，可以渗透到可能薄弱的数字国际基础设施中。NCC Education希望开发一种解决方案，使用经过全球测试的评估方法，满足监管要求和教育原则，但可以以成本效益高的方式，远程部署到拥有IT和数字基础设施的国家：在线和离线。这将使全球学生能够不间断地继续学习，获得资格并进入英国，并帮助英国发展成为一个有价值的国际学生社区。[0]：file：/C：/Users/kerry.voellner/Desktop/Innovation%20Fund/Public%20Innovation.complete.docx#_mall_1

NCC Education is an awarding organisation and global provider of British education.The Innovation Fund will be used to develop a robust, remote assessment methodology which meets regulator requirements, whilst allowing access to assessments for progression for students from varied geographic and socio-economic backgrounds, including those where the digital infrastructure is fragile.This will enable students from around the world to take assessments, where they would not be able to otherwise.Due to immediate changes in the global education space, mostly by the recent Covid-19 crisis and its effect on transnational education, millions of students globally can no longer access assessments conducted under traditional and rigorous 'exam centre/hall' conditions; considered acceptable for many UK Universities and Higher Education Institutions.Currently nearly all assessment centres globally are closed, creating an urgent need for a global online assessment solution, as many international students now have no route to UK higher education with traditional assessment methods.NCC Education aims to challenge this by developing an online, robust method of invigilation, the findings will form a case study for education establishments in the UK and internationally and will be shared as best practice with the Moodle community of over 156,000,000 education sites.The online assessment methodology and development will be a collaboration of partnerships with NCC Education's 180 Accredited Partner centres around the world in over 50 countries.Unlike current remote assessment methods (such as downloading questions and uploading answers), this project will retain the principles of traditional exam methods; with robust and tried and tested approaches. Without compromising assessment integrity, students will have access to remote assessment atmospheres where they can perform to their best ability.Whilst online invigilation is becoming popular in the UK, in International markets, it is a barrier to student assessments[\[EC1\]][0] . Many countries are tentative to adopt such approaches, preferring traditional assessments.To date; there hasn't been one universally-accepted approach which is robust enough to penetrate digital international infrastructures which may be weak.NCC Education would like to develop a solution using a globally-tested assessment methodology which meets regulatory requirements and education principles, but can, in a cost efficient way, be deployed remotely to countries with a mix of IT and digital infrastructures: online and offline.This will allow students globally to continue their studies uninterrupted, gain their qualification and progress to the UK and assist the UK in growing a valued community of international students.[0]: file:///C:/Users/kerry.voellner/Desktop/Innovation%20Fund/Public%20description.complete.docx#_msocom_1