Your monthly learning update: Feb 2023

Welcome to your monthly learning update,

Here you can catch up with our latest CPD opportunities and blogs. Plus, book now for upcoming workshops covering using assessment data in schools and question writing. Read on to find out more!

Live Webinars

?? Hear from Course Co-Director Dr Simon Child about the benefits of the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment in our latest webinar from earlier this week.

?? Sign up for an upcoming webinar opportunity to hear how our Assessment practitioner awards can support your career development and journey through assessment.

Upcoming Courses

A104: Psychometrics in Educational Assessment

Over nine weeks, you’ll:

• Understand the fundamental concepts in psychometrics, as applied to educational assessment.
• Learn how to interpret typical analyses and undertake such analyses yourself using realistic assessment data.
• Evaluate assessment quality using classical item-level statistics.
• Understand the features of classical statistics and their limitations.
• Understand item response theory and how it differs from classical test theory.
• Define equating and understand how items are calibrated in the applied context of item banking.

Booking Deadline: Today, 12pm (GMT)

Using assessment data to empower practice

By the end of the three sessions you will have:

• Understood the purposes and uses of assessment data, and key terminology in schools
• Interpreted common outputs from assessments, and considered how they can inform practice
• Discovered some of the statistics that can tell us more about assessments themselves, such as facility values, discrimination indices and reliability coefficients
• Used your knowledge and understanding of assessment data to identify impactful ways to positively influence your school or institution

Booking Deadline: 22 Feb 2023 at 12pm (GMT)

Writing and evaluating effective multiple-choice question

By the end of the three sessions you will have:

• Gained an understanding of the relationship between the principles of assessment and the design of MCQs
• Learned how to diagnose potential issues with MCQs, improving confidence in your practice
• Developed strategies to improve each stage of your MCQ design process, following analysis that you have conducted, giving you the tools to advance your practice

Booking Deadline: 6 March 2023 at 12pm (GMT)

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