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Jenny is a Principal Research Officer in the Department for Research in Assessment and Measurement. She started her career as a secondary English teacher, then re-trained as an EFL teacher and worked in Sweden and at the British Council in Hong Kong. After completion of an MA in TEFL at Reading University, she was a Senior Lecturer in Language Studies at Canterbury Christ Church College. She has also worked at the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman, and as a Senior Lecturer in English Language Education at Thames Valley University. She was awarded a PhD from Reading University in 1998, following research into reactions of test-takers to English proficiency tests.
She has considerable overseas experience, including a 4-year post with responsibility for all aspects of assessment in English in government schools in the Sultanate of Oman. This included supervision of production, administration and marking of National Certificate examinations, training of inspectors and teachers in assessment, revision of examination syllabuses and assessment procedures in line with curriculum changes, and consultation with textbook writers and syllabus developers. She has also undertaken overseas consultancy work in Malaysia, Mexico and Anguilla.
At NFER, she has worked on a variety of test development and research projects, including the Development of Grade Descriptors for the Revised Hong Kong School Certificate in Education Examination in English Language project, and development of Assessment tasks to validate the learning outcomes framework of the English Language subject in Hong Kong, sponsored by the Education and Manpower Bureau in Hong Kong. She also led the Inventory in Language Certification in Europe project for the European Commission. She is currently Project Leader for the Baseline Study on the English Language Proficiency of Pupils at Key Levels in Singapore, and is the National Project Manager for the OECD PISA 2006 survey in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Other projects have involved development or evaluation of assessment materials for adult literacy and ESOL learners in the UK.
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Worked in English language education and assessment in the UK, Hong Kong, Sweden, Malaysia and Oman. Joined the Department for Research in Assessment and Measurement at NFER in 1999.
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Assessment, International research, Secondary Education, Literacy.
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Assessment of English and other languages as foreign or second language.
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Basic Skills Agency (2002). Initial Assessment: an Assessment of Literacy and Numeracy [Research carried out by
Jenny
Bradshaw,
Catherine
Kirkup and Dougal Hutchison].
London: The Basic Skills Agency.
Bradshaw, J. (2003). ‘Using bookmark standard setting in the
UK context.’ Presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research,
Hamburg, 18 September. [online]
Bradshaw, J., Dalalakis, J., Moe, E. and Sluiter, S. (2006). 'The common European framework of reference for languages: transparency and equity.' Paper presented at the 7th Annual AEA-Europe Conference on Assessment and Equity, Sala Partenope,
Naples, 9-11 November.
Bradshaw, J., Sewell, J., Prince, S., Reynolds, T. and Brill, F. (2005). Study on the Development of the Grade Descriptors for the
Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination in English Language (Research Summary). [online].
Schagen,
I. and Bradshaw, J. (2003). ‘Modelling item difficulty for bookmark standard setting.’ Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference,
Heriot-Watt
University,
Edinburgh, 11 September [online].
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