Events and training

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.

Exploring the impact of social and professional capital on early career teachers’ resilience and success against a backdrop of a national challenge in teacher retention.

This session will highlight key issues around how to develop a working model of a curriculum, as well as some of the core issues in curriculum development.

The UK Rasch user group is a relatively informal, friendly forum for those working with the Rasch model in education, healthcare or any other field to get together for sharing ideas and presenting work.

This workshop will review the literature on CBT washback and outline a framework for studying its affects as it is introduced into educational contexts.

This training event introduces the use and development of taxonomies to support question writing, paper setting and evaluating assessments.

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.