Sarah Hughes is Research Information Manager at Cambridge Assessment International Education. She has taught in primary schools and been a researcher for UK and international awarding bodies and government agencies. Her particular research interests are the validity of assessment and the impact of research on practice and policy. Sarah currently carries out and applies research to support assessment practitioners and to improve assessment quality.
Yasin Karatay is a Senior Research Manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University (ISU), USA. His research focuses on computer-based language testing, conversational AI in language learning and assessment, spoken dialogue systems, automated writing evaluation, and test validation. Before joining Cambridge, he taught English in Turkey and the USA for several years.
Mark Frazer is currently the Digital Assessment Lead on the development of the Digital Geography and Data Literacy qualifications as part of the Digital High-Stakes Examinations project.
Prior to joining the Digital Assessment and Evaluation Team in October 2023, Mark was the Teaching and Learning Lead at the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) for eight years. During this time, he regularly worked with schools and educational organisations throughout the United Kingdom and in Abu Dhabi, Azerbaijan, China, Czechia and Dubai.
Before this, Mark taught in three primary schools in north-east England between 1997 and 2015 and was a headteacher for ten years. Mark graduated from Durham University with an MSc in Educational Assessment.
Hannah North is the Digital Product Manager for Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Computing. Hannah joined Cambridge International in 2022, from Cambridge CEM. She is working on a new product, focusing where we can add value digitally beyond our paper offering, by taking our existing assessment models and curricula, and working together to create a digital, Checkpoint assessment for Primary and Lower Secondary, using our existing technology.
Cerys Burcher is Head of Digital Product Development in the Digital Assessment & Evaluation team in International Education. She has worked at Cambridge since 2019 and led digital product development on several key cross-Cambridge digital assessment initiatives, working directly with schools, teachers and students, as well as closely with assessment, UX, technology and operations experts and practitioners.
Cerys and team are working on the CI and OCR Digital Assessment programme, to define and deliver on-screen Checkpoints, VQs, GCSEs and A levels, ensuring we combine a customer-centric digital product development approach with the academic rigour Cambridge stands for.
Saishree Singal is Digital Product Manager in Digital Assessment & Evaluation team in International Education. Saishree joined Cambridge International in 2023. She is working on Digital Mocks Service, focusing on migrated assessments, to identify existing challenges with the delivery of paper assessments and to understand how we can add value and support teachers and learners better with digital using our current curricula and existing technology.