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The e-Assessment Awards: Winners announced for the 2018 international awards

19 April: The winners of the second international e-Assessment Awards were announced last night at The e-Assessment Association’s gala dinner, held in London.

The international award programme is dedicated purely to advancements in e-assessment, to applaud and learn from the latest innovations from right across the education sector – from school, college and university based learning to work-based education and professional licensure. Receiving a record number of high calibre applications this year with a truly global reach, from Australia to Europe and America.

The winners of each category, judged by separate and independent panels of experts, are as follows:

Best Use of Formative Assessment:

Winner: Vretta Inc. and Luxembourg Ministry of Education

Best Use of Summative Assessment:

Winner: International Baccalaureate

Highly Commended: Vretta Inc. and Department of Evaluation Planning and Performance (DEPP), Ministry of Education, France

Innovation:

Winner: Innovate Awarding

Excellence in Export:

Winner: The Nautical Institute

Best Transformational Project:

Winner: Vretta Inc. Assessment-for-Learning Program

Highly Commended: International Baccalaureate

Best Research:

Winner: Trinity College London & Lancaster University

Lifetime Contribution: Angela Verschoor

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A language-free method of teaching maths to multilingual children to put early learners on an equal footing regardless of their home language has been tested in Luxembourg schools.

The programme for iPad, created by two Luxembourg University PhD students, visually interacts with young children, eliminating the added difficulties learning maths through a non-native language may pose.

A study carried out in 2011 showed young children learning basic maths in a non-native language performed worse than those who were taught in their mothertongue.

The iPad tool, which is now in its final stages, was tested in five 'cycle one' classrooms (five to six-year-olds) at two schools, in Grevenmacher and Steinsel.

PhD student and trained psychologist and researcher in developmental psychology, Véronique Cornu, came up with the idea of developing the tool which overcomes language barriers in early maths.

It teaches children through videos, without words or spoken language, using images to explain tasks and give instructions and providing visual-only feedback. 

"Instruction in early education such as kindergarten is very verbal," Cornu explained. "Children who attend a kindergarten in a language which is not their first language sometimes miss the instruction and this makes learning basic maths more difficult for them.

"By creating a non-verbal tool, all children can profit from the same instruction from the start."

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