Events and training

What exactly do we mean by 'fairness' and how does (un)fairness relate to, and impact upon, educational assessment? This workshop, led by Stuart Shaw, Principal Research Officer at Cambridge Assessment International Education, is designed to explore such questions.

A101 Introducing the Principles of Assessment is a nine week, online course for examiners, assessment writers, professional bodies, teachers and those working for exam boards.

In this practical training workshop, you’ll extend your understanding of statistics for assessment. You’ll build upon your knowledge of basic statistics concepts to learn new statistical methods, and how they are applied for specific assessment purposes.

Our means of both accessing information may be broader and faster than ever before, but when framed by a ‘post-truth’ narrative, just how are key stakeholders: schools, teachers, pupils, employers etc. expected to believe in the value of educational assessments? Dr Mary Richardson will consider this question at this Cambridge Assessment Network seminar.

This training session responds to two fundamental questions in relation to current conceptions of validity in assessment: what does it mean to claim validity and how can a claim be proven?

This course provides an introduction into the theory behind item response theory (IRT) and clear examples of when it is useful. It will include practical activities where participants will use the software package R to fit and interpret IRT models themselves as well as experiment with using IRT to help with test construction.

A two-week residential course for international assessment professionals on the design and delivery of public examinations

The Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Assessment and Examinations (PGCA) is a professionally relevant qualification that will enable you to expand your knowledge and understanding of the principles and validation of assessment.