Blogs by The Assessment Network

To help you choose the most suitable learning format, The Assessment Network has created a guide to explore each option, so you can find the perfect learning pathway to enhance your assessment practice.

At Cambridge, we take pride in conducting principled assessments that meet the highest technical standards, ensuring learners from around the world have access to quality education. In this blog, The Assessment Network at Cambridge explains the six different principles of assessment.

Vikram Rajendra is a member of The Assessment Network and a current student on the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment. We spoke to him about how assessment reliability and validity interact, and about the importance of aligning assessment methods with instructional goals.

Computer adaptive testing (CAT) is a form of assessment that adjusts question difficulty to match each test taker’s ability, creating more accurate and personalised evaluations. In this blog, Christopher Hubbard, Assessment Group Manager at Cambridge English, explores the key principles and benefits of CAT.

Member of The Assessment Network, teacher and examiner Kiran Nellure talks about his 'marking journey', his curiosity to know the 'science behind assessments' and the findings of his study into teacher assessment literacy – a project he worked on to gain the Advanced Assessment Practitioner Award.

Dr Simon Child reflects on insights shared at a recent Assessment in Higher Education Conference. This blog explores some of the key themes focusing on threats and possibilities that developments in could AI bring, and how approaches like authentic assessment can be considered to mitigate against the challenges faced by the sector.

Member of The Assessment Network and assessment practitioner Desmond Parke has recently gained the Advanced Assessment Practitioner Award. He told us about his assignment, which explored how a creative approach to vocational assessment design played to the strength of his students.

Wellington College International Shanghai, holds a distinguished position in the educational landscape of China. Founded in 2014 and part of the esteemed Wellington College Family the school has quickly garnered recognition for educational excellence, preparing students for success worldwide and achieving some of the highest exam results in the region. In March 2024, Wellington commissioned a bespoke training project with The Assessment Network at Cambridge to enable greater assessment literacy across its 1600 learners, staff, and parents.

Grading is the procedure of setting thresholds, boundaries or cut-off scores to distinguish how well a candidate has performed in assessments for a particular syllabus. In this blog, Dr Ellen Leggate, Senior Assessment Advisor at Cambridge Assessment International Education will cover some of the key approaches for setting and maintaining a grading standard and the sources of evidence which can be used.

A curriculum can be broadly defined as anything that contributes to the definition of a learning programme. In this blog, Cambridge experts Dr Daniel Morrish, Sarah Nelson and Dr Nayla Aramouni explore the subject of curriculum design and development and share details on their upcoming five-part workshop series on the topic.