Upgrade your assessment practice this August!

Welcome to your monthly learning update ?? Here you can catch up with our latest CPD opportunities and blogs.

Enjoy a taster episode of our Member exclusive podcast: Ask the Experts.

Book onto our brand new workshop series for our Higher Education practitioners:?Communication and management of assessment in Higher Education.

We also have returning workshops in?Mark schemes?and?Assessment data?as well as September dates for our?A10 courses.

Read on to find out more!

Ask the Experts – a podcast about assessment

'Ask the experts' is an exclusive podcast for Members of Cambridge Assessment Network which answers all your assessment-related questions.

This taster edition features?Martina Kuvalja, Senior Researcher in the Digital Assessment and Evaluation team, as she answers a question on metacognition, learning and assessment.

Martina has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Cambridge, where she investigated the development of self-regulated learning and metacognition in children.

Self-regulation and metacognition remain her main research interests and she delivers workshops and talks for teachers, the assessment community and product teams on the topic.

The episode is hosted by?Gill Elliott, Deputy Director of the Research Division, and?Sylvia Vitello, Senior Researcher in the Research Division.

Sign up today to unlock all past and future episodes, and take your learning to the next level with a Cambridge Assessment Network Membership.

Listen here:?https://ow.ly/8Qgj50PAj3B

Sign up to Membership:?https://ow.ly/Kayj50PAj3C

Higher education workshop series

Communication and management of assessment in Higher Education?

Are you looking to change your assessment strategy following your NSS results?

Our interactive series of four two-hour workshops will provide you with a practical approach to the design and management of effective module assessments in a Higher Education context.

By the end of the four workshops, successful participants will be able to:

• Critically explore approaches to HE assessment design to support a positive and transformative student assessment experience.
• Select approaches to assessment design to meet learning outcomes and the considerations of the co-curriculum.
• Reflect on multiple stakeholder assessment experiences and expectations to inform assessment practice.
• Design and construct an assessment communication plan to support the module delivery and management of an assessment.
• Explore opportunities to measure the impact and effectiveness of an overall assessment approach and its impact on performance and KPIs.

September courses