Blogs

How knowledge of key assessment concepts can support teachers to make evidence-based decisions in order to optimise the use of technology in education.

In September colleagues from Cambridge Assessment and the Press travelled to Oman to participate in Innovation MENA - a conference attended by ministers of education and higher education in the Arabic speaking world. Hanan Khalifa tell us about the experience.

The Anglo-Mexican Foundation operates Cambridge Assessment English exams across Mexico and Guatemala. Annemarie Stolk and Rosemary Flatt visited to find out more.

Since 2015, the number of girls taking A-level sciences has continued to increase yearly across the UK. This year just over half (50.3%) of science A-level entries came from female candidates, compared with 46.9% last year.

Two inspirational employees, who have been instrumental in founding and progressing Cambridge Assessment's Women in Leadership group, discuss the importance of gender equality within the organisation.

How can educational researchers handle anxiety? Will Millard explains how the team at education and youth ‘think and action-tank’ LKMco cope with scrutiny.

Louise Gilbert and Stu Proudfoot report from an item writing workshop and a football match in Uzbekistan.

Vicky Evans, Cambridge Assessment’s first Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, explains how the organisation can ensure access to education through volunteering, charity, and community work.

We’ve been taking a look at our data to see how well our Cambridge IGCSE students do after completing their Key Stage 4 studies. We wanted to see if there was any evidence that, as some have suggested, IGCSEs are 'easier'?

To say that relationships are important in schools is to both state the obvious and challenge the prevailing narrative of educational priorities.

Cambridge International’s CEO Christine Özden tells us what she has learned about the global assessment organisation and where it is headed.

Jill Duffy became Chief Executive of OCR in November 2018. Here, she tells us about her path into education and the challenges she faces in her role.

In response to a suggestion that International GCSEs (IGCSEs) are 'easier' than reformed GCSEs, our researcher Tom Benton looked into the methods used in the original research by Datalab.

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.

Research Officer Sinéad Fitzsimons reveals how two events exploring access to education for migrants chimed with the theme of a recent speech by Group Chief Executive Saul Nassé.

Retiring chairs of staff networks Chloe Shaw and Will Saville discuss the positive impact that the groups have had on the Cambridge Assessment community.

Simon Child explains how the concept of trust, as explored by Dr Mary Richardson in a recent seminar, informs his work as Head of Assessment Training for the Cambridge Assessment Network.

Iris Bi of Cambridge Assessment English presents insights from the Asian Association of Language Assessment conference in China, which featured several Cambridge English representatives.

What does the Year of the Earth Pig promise for education and China-UK relations in 2019?

As the Centre for Education Economics launches an expanded monthly research digest, guest blogger Lee Crawfurd explains how the discipline of education economics has much to teach mainstream education research.