CPD training courses

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.

Curious about what happens to students who leave post-16 education with low A level grades? Join us for an online webinar where Carmen Vidal Rodeiro and Tim Gill will share findings from their research using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset, exploring students’ progression, training, and employment outcomes and what this means for policy and practice.

This series of two interactive online workshops will explore how generative AI tools can be incorporated within our assessments.

A series of three interactive workshops that will cover the basic concepts of Computer Adaptive Tests (CATs) and their use in different assessment contexts.

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.

This interactive workshop will introduce some key ideas underpinning validity and validation, and will offer practical ideas for validating your assessments to check their overall quality.

This interactive series of three workshops is designed for anyone who wants to understand the key issues underpinning valid assessments of competence.

Understand key principles underpinning effective assessment including validity, reliability, and fairness. Improve your assessment knowledge and challenge your assumptions. Courses available: On-demand | 2 Feb-5 Apr 2026 | 1 Jun-2 Aug 2026 | 14 Sep-15 Nov 2026

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.