Association news

The East African regions recently passed the establishment of the Eastern Africa Association for Educational Assessment (EAAEA), which aims at strengthening the fight against examination cheating, Daily news reported.The association…

PISA founder Andreas Schleicher on the future of the education ranking

April 6, 2019

The global education ranking system, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, is changing to put more emphasis on measuring 21st-century skills, such as creativity and digital literacy and…

PISA set to change

March 24, 2019

The OECD is working to move its international testing program away from standardised, summative testing as debate about the value of such assessments grows louder in Australia and around the…

Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?

March 19, 2019

Perhaps no tests have higher stakes in the United States than the SAT and the ACT. For decades the scores were a key data point on the application for virtually…

Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education”

March 4, 2019

The Institute of Education at HSE University Russia welcomes applications for the upcoming Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education” Dates: August 05–10, 2019 Venue: HSE University…

Thousands of foreign students caught in limbo by scandal

February 8, 2019

Thousands of foreign students caught up in an English-language test cheating scandal in Britain five years ago are still in limbo, unable to prove their innocence, with their visas revoked…

UAE set to roll out world’s 1st moral education exam

February 2, 2019

The United Arab Emirates is set to roll out a standardised test to assess moral education nationwide, making it the first country to quantify how schools fare in shaping students’…

‘Paper-based exams will survive for at least a decade’

January 29, 2019

Tes profiles Saul Nassé, Cambridge Assessment’s new Group Chief Executive. Quote: “the end-of-study exam has got a lot of years left in it yet”. “What you don’t want to do…

Exams tighten their grip on the curriculum

January 11, 2019