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25 years of the Construction Health and Safety (Digital) Test
This is the story of one big volume UK digital test that re-shaped test design and delivery for maximum impact.
Apr 33 min read


2024 Exam Sector Review
A curious year for the assessment sector. $25M fines for exam cheating. UK spluttering on plans for digitising school exams. A regulator...
Dec 6, 20246 min read


The new Metric Martyrs? Are digital exams really the same as paper ones?
England’s school exam owners are preparing to offer GCSE digital exams and their paper equivalent in parallel. But is that fair? Is one...
Jan 16, 20243 min read


Love Professional Career Invigilators! Leave Resting Actors to pull pints.
The tide is turning on casual exam invigilators. Career folk invigilating every day versus apathetic people wishing they were elsewhere....
Jan 12, 20243 min read


"But We Don't Have Enough Computers!" Delivering digital exams for UK schools
The main four England and Wales General Qualifications exam owners have set out their digital school exam stall. It's shook many digital...
Jan 9, 20242 min read


Chatting for better exams!
Back in July, I was intrigued by the use of a chatbot for conducting university admission at Leeds Beckett University, wondering what...
Nov 16, 20185 min read


Where did you get this? Remote Proctoring shaking up the exam world
The Wow Factor Technology captures our imaginations to solve problems we never knew we had. In readiness for the 16th eAssessment...
Apr 13, 20182 min read


Accredit When Ready
Employers must ensure they have a workforce that is bang up to date with its knowledge, understanding and skills, while minimising the...
Mar 1, 20173 min read


A question of duality: 11 reasons why exam dual-sourcing is good and bad for learners and exam owners
After seven years of delivering through one assessment company, Microsoft Learning have returned to ‘dual-sourcing’, that is offering...
Jun 5, 20144 min read
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