Uplink newsletters

Uplink is the OCR newsletter for Assessors, published in Spring and Autumn. It is sent to all new and current assessors. In each issue you can find:

  • Important announcements from OCR
  • News about new qualifications and services
  • e-assessment and technology updates.

Uplink extra contains extra news and information and can be found exclusively on-line. It is also published in Spring and Autumn.

If you would like to comment or contribute to Uplink or Uplink extra, please contact uplink@ocr.org.uk.

Uplink Issue 8 – Autumn 2007

Uplink issue 8 front cover

Change and Challenge

In this issue, Qualifications Director Clara Kenyon discusses the challenges that OCR has faced over the past year and looks forward to future changes.

Also in this issue of Uplink:

  • Focusing on the OCR forum
  • Celebrating 150 years of assessment
  • Assessor agreements – Important new developments.

Download Uplink Issue 8 – Autumn 2007 (PDF, 2.8 Mb)

Uplink extra – Autumn 2007

In this issue:

  • Policing e-assessment
  • News from the Cambridge Assessment Network
  • Assessor recruitment and retention.

Download Uplink extra – Autumn 2007 (PDF, 1.3 Mb)

Uplink Issue 7 – Spring 2007

In this issue:

  • Question Writer's Interactive Learning Tool (QWILT)
  • An update on 14-19 changes
  • Assessors and Child Protection
  • The new NVQ Code of Practice.

Download Uplink – Spring 2007 (PDF, 1.1 Mb)

Uplink extra – Spring 2007

In this issue:

  • The latest update on malpractice in examinations
  • e-assessment approaches to qualifications
  • OCR's new publishing partners.

Download Uplink extra – Spring 2007 (PDF, 1.1 Mb)

Uplink Issue 6 – Autumn 2006

In this issue:

  • Coming together – the formation of the new OCR Qualifications Division
  • Training award for Key Skills Moderator
  • On-screen marking update
  • The first anniversary of the Cambridge Assessment Network.

Download Uplink Issue 6 – Autumn 2006 (PDF, 1.1 Mb)

Uplink extra – Autumn 2006

In this issue:

  • An update on Specialist Diplomas
  • Assessors become 'Office Specialists'
  • OCR email communities.

Download Uplink extra – Autumn 2006 (PDF, 1.8 Mb)

Uplink Issue 5 – Spring 2006

In this issue:

  • Know your own mind – new assessment research from Cambridge Assessment's research division
  • A guide to Computer-based testing
  • OCR's new digital marking pilot
  • Latest information on malpractice.

Download Uplink Issue 5 – Spring 2006 (PDF, 3.4 Mb)

Uplink extra – Spring 2006

In this issue:

  • Principles and practices of assessment – a new course from the Cambridge Assessment Network
  • Assessment research from Cambridge Assessment
  • 'Innovate to educate' with the new scheme from Futurelab.

Download Uplink extra – Spring 2006 (PDF, 751 Kb)