The Futures of Assessment: Navigating uncertainties

  • - Established future thinking methodologies including horizon scanning, futures triangle, causal layered analysis and scenarios to anticipate our preferred assessment futures.
  • - Five drivers of the future of assessment and identifying actions to take now to help us shape a positive assessment future.
  • - With our vision of 2050 in mind we work back to today to describe different phases in the timeline to achieve and shape the preferred future.

Cambridge University Press and Assessment

Sarah Hughes

Session Description

Navigating uncertainties through the lenses of anticipatory thinking.

This cross-Cambridge University research, led by the Digital Education Futures Initiative, looks forward to 2050, not to predict the future of assessment, but to use Futures Thinking to anticipate plausible assessment futures.