CPD training courses

Learn methods from psychometrics to ensure your tests are reliable, valid, and fair. Gain the tools and understanding to analyse your assessment data. Courses available: 1 Sep-2 Nov 2025

This interactive series of three workshops will provide you with a solid foundation in using AI for item generation and assessment design.

Learn to lead effective and equitable assessment change with this five-day programme for global assessment leaders. Back for 2025.

Understand key principles underpinning effective assessment including validity, reliability, and fairness. Improve your assessment knowledge and challenge your assumptions. Courses available: On-demand | 8 Sep-9 Nov 2025

Understand the practicalities of producing and delivering assessment as you are guided through the assessment cycle from start to finish. Courses available: On-demand | 15 Sep-16 Nov 2025

Understand the practicalities of gathering, interpreting, and critically using assessment data as you are guided through the process of collecting and analysing data, and making informed decisions based on that data. Courses available: 22 Sep-23 Nov 2025

This interactive series of three workshops will help you understand how to design and use multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for a variety of educational purposes, and how to effectively design them for optimal impact.

An interactive series of workshops introducing item banking theory, practice and delivery, with an opportunity to discuss the relevance of item banking in your own context.

This interactive workshop will describe the different approaches to mark scheme design and provide practical guidance on how to optimise your mark schemes.

A series of four interactive online workshops on the principles of writing good exam questions. A comprehensive guide to the effective development of assessments and individual items with practical information and opportunities to evaluate a range of questions and mark schemes.