Assessment Design and Development

Assessments are most effective when they are carefully integrated into education systems and closely aligned with the curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment: assessments must be designed in such a way that they meet the objectives of education systems, and support and reinforce that system’s curriculum, teaching and learning. We can use our world-class expertise in assessment to review and improve your existing assessments, or to design and support implementation and delivery of completely new assessment systems.

What we offer

We use a sound research-based approach to review, design and deliver assessment, based on our guiding assessment principles. We have wide ranging expertise in the theory and practice of assessment, school examinations, curriculum agnostic assessment, standardised tests, adaptive testing, classroom and continual assessment, on-screen assessment.

When reviewing your assessment options, our starting point is always to make sure we understand the aims and context of your education system, and limitation that might exist. We take into consideration any logistical challenges such as financial resources and infrastructure to make clear and practical recommendations to help you decide what is the best approach for your own context.

Once all these factors have been considered, we work with you to plan any new assessments and implement any recommended changes, whether they are across the whole education system, or at one particular level or for one particular aspect – for example, how assessment should be marked and the results reported, or how assessment can be used as a diagnostic tool for schools and teacher improvement.

We can support the design, development, and implementation of the full range of educational assessments, including:

diagnostic assessment
end-of-stage, including high-stakes, assessment
regular assessment to inform teaching and learning

We provide a number of assessment services:

Needs analysis and policy recommendations

Helping you make the many complex decisions needed to design and develop national assessment frameworks that are fully aligned to the objectives of your education system.

Assessment design and development

Working with you to develop assessment and detailed assessment documentation tailored to your own needs and wider objectives.

Operational delivery of assessment

We can set up and run the exam process on your behalf including data collection and processing, centre management, exam paper printing, logistics, and issuing results and certificates.

Capacity development

Embedding capacity development within projects and offering off-the-shelf or adapted training courses for assessment authorities and assessment developers.