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Louise Badham
Head of Assessment Design & Principles at AQA (UK exam board), formerly Manager for Assessment Research & Design at the International Baccalaureate and a DPhil (Education) student at the University of Oxford.
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Oct 1, 2026
How Universal Design could change assessment: TTR Special
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You've said a little bit already about your universal design practice, but would you be able to talk us through a bit more how these principles work and which specific principles are trying to address which specific problems that you see as currently existing with assessment practice?
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23:11Louise BadhamGUEST
So the principles are really sort of this-- We have a, a set of standards, I suppose, that are sort of the o-overarching approach, and then there's a whole load of detail beneath them.
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23:20Louise BadhamGUEST
So I'll just go through the, [chuckles] the overarching standards, kind of the ideals.
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23:24Louise BadhamGUEST
So essentially it comes down to, first of all, asking the question of what i-- what is the thing that we're trying to assess? So being really, like, clearly defining what it is we're interested in assessing in a particular assessment.
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23:34Louise BadhamGUEST
Once you know what that is, it's much easier to identify the barriers that can get in the way of it.
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23:39Louise BadhamGUEST
So [clears throat] then, uh, once we're clear about the purpose of the assessment, then we are interested in sort of a, a little bit about what we've talked about already.
12 MINS LATER
Tom RogersHOST
Are, are there any examples of where a school or a center have said, "Look, we want this," and you did it? And also, are there any examples where the feedback that's been given to you has ever challenged an assumption or, or completely changed the direction of the work that you've been doing?
