Ms Katie Blainey
Product Director: Assessment, Professional Development and Learning Design for Hodder Education
Ms Blainey has developed and delivered a large programme of bespoke, standardised tests and surveys for the K-12 market. Her company’s products are used widely in thousands of primary schools in the UK and globally to support teachers in their decision making and to improve pupils’ learning.
She leads a team with extensive digital experience of developing assessments, platforms and software to solve teacher’s problems with a strong data-rich underpinning and is proud to have won awards for SNAP (a special needs product). She has been Principal Investigator on the Nuffield Foundation research project to explore the impact of Covid-19 related school closures on children’s attainment and wellbeing.
