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How to gain quality feedback from your courses
Getting feedback that is informative to help you enhance your course provision is not easy. So how can you improve the feedback from delegates without making extra paper work? Read more to find out how to make both your life and your delegates' lives easier.
How do you maintain and assess the quality of your examinations? We use the results of exams to inform critical judgments such as whether someone should be given a licence to practise medicine or dentistry, so it is important to check that the test results can be relied upon. Learn what reliability is and how to improve test reliability.
The essential guide to item analysis
Knowing how to anaylse your exam questions doesn't have to be a headache. Learn how to use two statistical measures to help you understand your data better without needing to be a psychometrician.
Overcoming barriers to e-assessment
Looking to improve your assessment processes by adopting a digital examination system? Find out how you can overcome challenges such as having enough computers or a reliable network.
The end of paper based exams?
“By 2023 pen and paper will be a thing of the past.” Will this happen in the UK? Learn more about the problems with the current paper-based exams and how the UK could be falling behind in delivering a 21st century education system.
5 Tips to secure your exam questions
Here are five tips which we have gathered from 10 years experience of delivering secure exams, which you can put into place to maximise the security of your questions.
Distractions improve problem solving
Know that frustrating feeling when you desperately want that flash of inspiration to help you solve a problem, but your phone keeps going and the emails keep flooding in? Here's how you can make the most of distractions to help your creative problem solving powers.
To Blog or Not to Blog?
This blog won’t be a diary of our daily coffee drinking habits but an insight into topics that we have found interesting or thought provoking, a place to pose questions and open up discussions.