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A101: Introducing the Principles of Assessment

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Understand key principles underpinning effective assessment including validity, reliability, and fairness. Improve your assessment knowledge and challenge your assumptions. Courses available: On-demand | 3 Feb-6 Apr 2025 | 2 Jun-3 Aug 2025 | 8 Sep-9 Nov 2025
03 Feb 2025 - 06 Apr 2025

Browse the workshops portfolio page for a full list of the workshops we offer or get in touch to discuss bespoke solutions including group training for organisations.

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    Assessing 'competence': Definitions, challenges and strategies (Workshop series)

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

    14 Jan 2025 - 28 Jan 2025 Online 12:30 - 14:00 £265 (Members - £238.50)
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    Writing and evaluating effective multiple-choice questions (Workshop series)

    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.

    04 Feb 2025 - 18 Feb 2025 Online 12:30 - 14:00 £265 (Members - £238.50)
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    Understanding and optimising your mark schemes (Workshop)

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

    04 Mar 2025 Online 12:30 - 14:00 £95 (Members - £85.50)
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    Item banking: theory, practice and delivery (Workshop series)

    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.

    12 Mar 2025 - 26 Mar 2025 Online 12:30 - 14:00 £265 (Members - £238.50)
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    Question writing for effective assessment (Workshop series)

    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.

    05 Jun 2025 - 26 Jun 2025 Online £325 (Members - £292.50)
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    Assessment validation for beginners: How do I know my assessments have worked well? (Workshop)

    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.

    24 Jun 2025 Online 12:30 - 14:30 £95 (Members - £85.50)

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