Building Assessment You Can Trust
Quality assessment not only provides insight to educators, it offers valuable opportunities to reinforce knowledge through retrieval practice, helping students strengthen their learning while revealing what they understand.
Robust assessment is founded on quality research conducted through the development process, repeatedly validating both its measurement properties and value to educators and learners. But how do we know our assessment is actually measuring what we set out to measure? That it discriminates well and tells us something meaningful about each of our learners?
Validity ensures we're testing what we intended to test. i.e. a maths assessment truly captures mathematical understanding rather than reading ability.
Reliability focuses on consistency - would students achieve similar results on another day?
The assessment must also hit the right level of challenge. Sophisticated enough to differentiate between learners and show meaningful progress, yet accessible enough that every student can engage and demonstrate what they truly know. When these foundations are in place, educators can trust their results and confidently guide learning.
By joining a trial you’ll help...
Check score distributions and test reliability
We want to understand how scores spread across your pupils—ensuring there’s enough variation to measure learning accurately and reliably.Examine item difficulty
We’ll look at how easy or hard each question is, so we can avoid both floor effects (too hard) and ceiling effects (too easy), ensuring meaningful challenge for all learners.Test how well items discriminate between different levels of pupil ability
The aim is to make sure questions distinguish effectively between more- and less-able pupils—so each item contributes to understanding what pupils really know.Identify potential bias (Differential Item Functioning)
We’ll check whether any pupil group (e.g. by gender or language background) performs differently on specific questions—so we can remove or revise any items that are unfairly favouring one group.It's completely free to participate in our pilots, and you'll also be contributing to the final test and insight we provide when the tests go live. We exist to serve the education community by listening to what you need.
