Curriculum Vitae of Christine Ward

1965	BA (Oxon) - later MA
1965-74	City and Guilds of London Institute Initially as subject officer for a range of subjects (mainly in Engineering), then in Research and Development department (1972-74), concentrating on assessment techniques.
1974-85	Freelance, working part-time from home. Included projects for City & Guilds, Business and Technician Education Council, Guildford Educational Services Ltd.
1985 - 2003	Consultant, Guildford Educational Services Ltd. Main areas of activity:
	- Assistant Editor of EDUCA, the Digest for Vocational Education and Training. - Work in GES consultancy projects, usually as Project Director (examples of projects on other screens) - Product development and specific projects related to the learning resource Europe in the Round, produced by GES’ parent company, Vocational Technologies Ltd.
2003 -	Independent consultant, trading as Ward Educational Consulting
From 1992	Member of Management Committee of FERA (Further Education Research Association)
From 2001	Member of BSI Panel for BS7988, A Code of Practice for the use of Information Technology for the Delivery of Assessments
From 2004	Member of Advisory Group for Loughborough International CAA conference

Publications

Designing a Scheme of Assessment (Stanley Thornes, 1980)

Preparing and Using Constructed-Answer Questions (Stanley Thornes, 1981)

Preparing and Using Objective Questions (Stanley Thornes, 1981)

As editor, Multiple-choice questions for Nurses (Bailliere Tindall, 6 books, 1977-84)

As editor, Multiple-choice questions for Catering/Food Service (Heinemann, 2 books)

As Assistant Editor of EDUCA, wide range of articles and news items, covering developments in post-16 education and training, specialising in assessment and qualifications (1985-2003)

Systems and procedures of certification of qualifications in the UK, paper for CEDEFOP later reprinted by the Employment Department

Co-author (with Henriette Perker of Centre Inffo) of a study for CEDEFOP of APL procedures in France and the UK

Co-author of study for CEDEFOP of links between initial and continuing vocational education and training in selected EC countries (author of UK study and editor of synthesis paper)

Information bulletin on the NVQ system in the UK (International Labour Office, 1999)

Co-author of Better Testing, a computerised guide to setting good objective tests

Co-author, Crisp V and Ward C, The PePCAA project: Formative Scenario-based CAA in Psychology for Teachers, presented at 9^th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference, Loughborough July 2005 – see www.caaconference.com

Also article on same topic accepted for Computers and Education journal