Blogs by Tom Bramley

All examinations contain a mix of questions that vary in how they discriminate between student ability. Providing advance information (an intervention that is intended to make certain questions on an examination easier) will affect the difficulty of questions in different ways. Tom Bramley, Director of the Research Division, asks whether providing advance information could benefit some students more than others.

Could more continuous assessment make the high-stakes GCSE and A Level exam system in England more robust? Tom Bramley explores the idea of relying on more teacher assessment in the second part of a blog series on the robustness and resilience of the exam system.

The coronavirus pandemic has made many people question whether the exam system in England is sufficiently robust or resilient. In a two part blog series Tom Bramley looks at the robustness of online assessment and teacher assessment.

What is a Rasch user? Tom Bramley reports from the 13th UK Rasch user group as the annual psychometric modelling meeting returns to Cambridge Assessment.