CPD training courses

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.

Learn methods from psychometrics to ensure your tests are reliable, valid, and fair. Gain the tools and understanding to analyse your assessment data. Courses available: 2 Sep-3 Nov 2024

Understand key principles underpinning effective assessment including validity, reliability, and fairness. Improve your assessment knowledge and challenge your assumptions. Courses available: Self-study | 9 Sep-10 Nov 2024

Understand the practicalities of producing and delivering assessment as you are guided through the assessment cycle from start to finish. Courses available: 16 Sep-17 Nov 2024

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

Become literate with the basics of using, managing, and interpreting data. Learn how to make the most of your data – from collection and management through to visualisation. Courses available: 23 Sep-24 Nov 2024

A series of three interactive online workshops aimed at teachers and school leaders, that will help you to understand and use assessment-related data to inform practice and develop an effective data culture.

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.

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

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.