The Exam Man
The Exam Man is the number 1 podcast for anyone with an interest in exams, assessment, and education in the UK and beyond. John Gaston and Sophie Gaston, the team behind the exam display tool Examscreen- used in 1500 schools in the UK and internationally- provide listeners with insights and musings on all things assessment, bringing in a variety of voices from across exams, education and beyond, tackling the issues of the moment and looking forward. They explore what we can do to build an excellent assessment system for children, schools, families, and employers, as well as offering a light-hearted take on the business of running and sitting exams.
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JCQ with baubles on
Welcome to a special Christmas episode of The Exam Man, in collaboration with JCQ, In this festive episode, John and Sophie are joined by none other than Margaret Farragher, Chief Executive Officer of JCQ. Margaret is an experienced and respected leader across the public, private and voluntary secto...
RESULTS SPECIAL: "Contingency mindset", adrenaline junkies & introducing My Big Year
To usher in GCSE results week, John and Sophie spent a delightful half hour chatting to Jennifer Halpin, Exams Team Leader at David Ross Education Trust, for a special summer episode of The Exam Man. In her role, Jen supports exams officers across the 11 secondaries at DRET, a team which includes on...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Ofqual in the house
SPECIAL EPISODE of The Exam Man is here! Such a pleasure to speak to Amanda Swann , Executive Director at Ofqual , about the imminent summer exam series and the role of Ofqual - with information aplenty, helpful tips, timely reminders, and uplifting messages of appreciation for those in charge of ru...
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! What we've learned about podcasting
Celebrating One Whole Entire Year of The Exam Man! How to create a podcast... and what we've learned. The Exam Man podcast- despite originally being planned as a scrappy six- week event for the summer exam season- somehow reaches its first anniversary this week! Over the past year, thousands of coll...
Could Schools Handle An Exams Overhaul?
This week on The Exam Man podcast we swing from talking about South Korea's all-in attitude to exams to transforming the exam system- should we? Could we, even if we wanted to? Lisa Greenslade joins us to talk about her experience of transforming at scale in higher education exams. To subscribe to E...