Schools K-12

As educators needed to find new ways for students to take tests during COVID-19, the shift to digital via online assessment is becoming less of a...

As Australia faces a secondary teacher shortage, high schools are seeking outside help to deliver HSC exams in a reliable and COVID-safe...

For an online test to be valid, reliable and fair it requires high quality test items that are fully translated and localised to meet the needs of...

We carry out a huge portion of our day-to-day tasks and work lives online and these digital environments mean that cybercriminals have increasingly...

In this brief guide, we clarify the meaning of ‘high-stakes assessment’ and its invaluable cousin, ‘low-stakes assessment’. What makes a...

Hannah Jamieson, national education advisor for headspace Schools, knows only too well how easy it is for teachers to burn out by the time they reach...

The end-of-year school break is likely to be the first taste of respite that teachers will get from the strain of this past year's challenges. We...

Just as the beauty of a tapestry is the result of tying together loose threads, so too, the online assessment of a learner relies upon a series of...

Parents are an integral part of the education journey, and parent-teacher night is a key touchpoint to ask specific questions and hear feedback about...

After more challenging months of uncertainty and lockdowns for our teacher colleagues as well as parents, schools are open once more, and it seems...

A certain level of assessment-related pressure is normal. It can even be helpful in delivering nervous energy and focus during exams. However, when...

It's easy to assume the term ‘PISA for Schools’ refers to the three-yearly PISA test which runs in more than 80 OECD countries and whose results...

Whether you're a teacher or parent, it’s highly likely that you’ve come across various terminology for the types of tests your child sits at...

The US Federal Government support package released to districts and schools is intended to be uniformly applied in addressing students’ academic,...

The true impact of COVID-19 and US school closures on K-12 learning remains to be seen, making it challenging for any one school to gauge its...

Is your institution or school considering remote online proctored exams? Since the pandemic, this technology has allowed universities, professional...

The bedrock of an individualised approach to teaching is a self-aware school ecosystem – one in which schools have a clear, proportional and global...

The lockdown has accelerated educators’ and students’ interactions with online learning and assessment technologies. So, what happens next? New...

Made possible by a combination of AI face-recognition software and an inbuilt web camera, remote online proctoring promises huge opportunities within...

There’s no question that the future of exams is digital. But the critical challenge when switching from paper-and-pen exams remains poor internet...

Digital testing has opened more elicitation techniques than ever to test authors. Given that question types have their inherent strengths and...