1:00 pm - 1:30 pm CET | Open Source Assessment: A Year in Review 
Marc Oswald, Patrick Plichart, Open Assessment Technologies

TAO Days will open with a look back on the TAO’s evolution from the early days, to the latest open source innovations and what to expect from the TAO product roadmap.

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm CET | Spotlight the PISA 2025 Learning in the Digital World Assessment

• 1:30 - 1:50 | Transitioning PISA to Online Assessment 

Dr. Goran Lazendic, Research Director - Systemwide Testing/Manager | The Australian Council for Educational Research

Conducted every three years since 2000 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), PISA is a leading international survey that measures 15-year-old students’ ability to apply their knowledge and skills to real-life problems and situations. 

As a long-standing partner and trusted advisor to the  OECD for the PISA survey, OAT is collaborating with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to provide TAO for the PISA 2025 delivery. This session will discuss the transition of PISA to online assessment, including the challenges,  advantages, and future opportunities for improving student learning.

• 1:50 - 2:10 pm CET | Assessing Problem-solving and Self-regulated Learning with Interactive, Resource-rich Tasks
  Dr. Mario Paicentini, Senior Analyst | the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  
  This presentation will provide an overview of the main features of tasks included in the Learning in the Digital World assessment, the innovative domain for the PISA 2025 cycle. In all tasks, students receive automated and on-demand feedback on the quality of their work, can consult interactive worked examples and compare their solutions to expert ones after submission. These task features and the unit structure - with easier tasks preparing students for harder tasks  - have been designed to generate evidence on students’ adaptive problem-solving skills and capacity to self-regulate their learning.
  
  
• 2:10 - 2:20 pm CET | Joint Q&A

2:25 pm - 3:10 pm CET | Keynote: Test Development in the Times of AI 
Dr. Alina von Davier, Founder | EdAstra & Chief of Assessment | Duolingo

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a critical role in digital, high-stakes educational assessments for test development, measurement and security. This presentation explores use of AI in an assessment ecosystem (Burstein et al., 2022). The assessment ecosystem is composed of a set of integrated frameworks for test design, measurement and security.  Examples of AI use in ecosystem frameworks include automatic item generation for test design, automated scoring for measurement, and automated plagiarism detection for security.  Specifically, automated item generation facilitates the creation of a vast pool of quality test items. Human bias may exist in training data, and the bias may inadvertently propagate to new items through the introduction of biased content. However, human experts conduct item reviews and address this potential bias. Benefits include the fact that human experts do not have to do the heavy lifting of item creation.

I will talk about the item factory, that links the management of human experts as reviewers combined with content management and a flexible platform that allows for an efficient human-in-the-loop test development process. These streamlining efforts combined with rigorous AI responsible standards (Burstein et al., 2023) minimize biases and ensure equitable outcomes for all test takers. 

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm CET | Transforming Language and Literacy Testing in New York City Schools
Dr. Anthony Benners, Senior Psychometrician and Innovation Advisor | NYC Department of Education

Dr. Anthony Benners, Sr. Psychometrician and Innovation Advisor to the New York City Department of Education sits down  to discuss how technology tools like TAO’s open source platform have the potential to transform the future of language and literacy assessment in NYC schools. Audience members will have the chance to share their questions and input during a brief Q&A following the session.

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm CET | Assessing & Fostering Critical Thinking Skills for 21st-Century Learning
Salah Khalil, Founding Director | Macat International Limited

This presentation will explore how AI may leave us with two possible scenarios: “the superfluous human being,” where AI replaces human intelligence, and “citizen cyborg,” where humans harness AI to create a superintelligence (augmented intelligence).

Macat founder Salah Khalil will lead a transformative talk exploring AI's potential and address the critical obstacle of a skill-deficient global workforce in the emerging New Economy, with a focus on how to measure and develop these skills, using a world-class assessment.

4:25 pm - 4:55 pm CET | Breaking from Conventional Assessment Using Open Source PCIs
Dr. Jean-Phillipe Riviere, Founder | Wiquid

Modern curriculums require educators to assess students’ career readiness by measuring 21st Century Skills, which include deeper learning competencies such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, and problem-solving. However, these competencies have traditionally been difficult to measure through traditional assessment methods.

With the open-source Geogebra PCI, developed for TAO by our partner Wiquid, TAO users can easily impart complex science and math simulations directly into their assessments. This session will walk through several use cases for the Geogebra PCI, and how TAO PCIs enable users to collect rich data to gain a better understanding of how students approach problem-solving while ensuring content and data interoperability.

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm CET | Closing Remarks
Open Assessment Technologies

Tune in for highlights as we wrap up the first day of the event and hear what's in store for day 2.

1:00 - 1:45 pm CET | Keynote: The Future of eLearning & Testing with TAO & Uchida Yoko Co. LTD. 

Since our launch in 2013, OAT has been a key driver in the adoption of modern and affordable e-assessment solutions across the world. Building on a 7-year partnership, the recent acquisition of OAT by Uchida Yoko Co. represents a significant step forward in the evolution of TAO-based solution offerings. 

Tune into our Day 2 Keynote to find out how TAO is being used to effectively promote digital assessment in Japan, and how Uchida and OAT are working together to drive the provision of integrated learning solutions globally.

This session will highlight a message from our partners at Uchida Yoko and ) as they discuss the use of TAO as the official digital assessment solution for the Japanese Ministry of Education’s national computer-based testing (CBT) program, MEXCBT, used in approximately 25,000 schools by 8,400,000 students from elementary to high school across all prefectures.

1:50 - 2:30 pm CET | Building the Evidence Base for Edtech: Improving Literacy and Numeracy Outcomes for Learners in South Africa
Nicola Harris, CEO | Click Learning 
Rob Urquhart | Chief Research and Impact Officer | Click Learning

2:35 - 3:05 pm CET | Tackling Cyber Security for High-Stakes Testing Campaigns
Ionut Mihai Sandu, Head of Engineering | Open Assessment Technologies

Some of the biggest players in the digital space, like LinkedIn and Facebook, have fallen victim to data breaches, exposing a huge amount of personal data from their users. When we translate these security concerns to the EdTech industry, and especially in assessment, we know that data needs to be secured for both students and stakeholders.

The consequences of leaking student testing data are dire. Not only are there legal ramifications for compromising testing information, but students are placed at a disadvantage, and institutions can also face significant financial losses. There is simply no tradeoff when it comes to the security of EdTech and digital assessment tools. At the same time, the scalability and performance of assessment software must be considered when delivering tests to eliminate the risk of disruptions to the system.

In this session, we will discuss the security and performance aspects of an efficient online assessment delivery system, including open security standards like LTI1.3, security for remotely proctored exams, and methods for mitigating test item exposure.

3:10 - 3:40 pm CET | Tech Tips for Becoming a TAO Power User
Andre Nunes, Head of Product Marketing | Open Assessment Technologies
Sara Kadiri, Solutions Specialist | Open Assessment Technologies

Want to learn to how to become a TAO power user? This 30-minute power-user session packs in best practices and pro-tips for using the latest edition of the TAO platform. Get hands-on with TAO and follow along with our product experts as they walk through scenarios using various features and tools. 

3:45 - 4:15 pm CET | Fostering Learning Equity & Building a Better Future for Education with Assessment
Open Assessment Technologies

In today’s education landscape equity should be at the forefront of all school, school district, and state-level policy decisions as we work to lessen the digital divide in education.  Developing an equitable learning experience and curriculum provides high-quality education and opportunities for growth for all students. Nowhere is this more true than when creating and implementing assessments.

This session will share insight into how open-source assessment tools can help foster learning equity and better education outcomes around the world, including in developing countries. We will also provide information on the Flip+ eAssessment community and how you can become involved in the eAssessment sharing economy. 

4:20 - 5:00 pm CET | Meet & Share with the TAO User Group
Dragos Ivan, Head of Product | Open Assessment Technologies

After launching the TAO User Group at last year’s TAO Days event, catch up with us for a “year in review.” Find out how the TAO User Group has helped set the direction for the TAO product roadmap, and how you can become involved as a member. We'll also take a deep dive into the development of TAO Studio, our next-generation authoring environment built for accessibility from the ground up to simplify the test creation process. 

5:00 - 5:20 pm CET | Closing Remarks
Open Assessment Technologies

Join us for closing remarks as we wrap up the conference and share a special message of thanks to our clients and global open source community of users.