The 2026 Conference on Test Security (COTS) invites proposals on topics including statistical methods for detecting test fraud, protecting validity of testing results, test security programme strategi...
The Assessment Network, part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, provides CPD-accredited professional development for assessment practitioners worldwide. It offers online courses, practitioner...
In this episode of Softcat's Explain IT podcast, host Helen Gidney is joined by James Blake from Cohesity and Gary Hawkins from Softcat to explore modern cyber resilience. They cover data protection a...
Host David Rettinger speaks with Dr Jason Stephens, professor of psychological studies at the University of Auckland, about the moral psychology of cheating. They explore moral disengagement, Stephens...
As exam season approaches, agentic AI poses a growing threat to digital assessment integrity in higher education. Unlike traditional AI tools, AI student agents can autonomously complete and submit ex...
OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. The small but powerful 1.5B parameter model supports context-awa...
Ofqual has issued a formal Chief Regulator's Rebuke to exam board WJEC CBAC Ltd for serious failures concerning four of its Eduqas GCSE, AS and A level qualifications between 2019 and 2025. The non-st...
Writing for FE News, Kavitha Ravindran of sAInaptic examines Ofqual's regulatory stance on AI in assessment. She argues that AI cannot be the sole marker in regulated qualifications, and that the real...
Veteran psychometrician Mary Pitoniak, founder of Pitoniak Educational Measurement and former ETS expert, discusses the enduring importance of reliability, validity and fairness in assessment. She cau...
Hugh McNeela from ReadSpeaker joins Tim Burnett on the Test Community Network podcast to explore why accessibility in assessment must become the default, not an exception. With 70% of neurodiverse can...
Skills for the Future is developing new assessments to measure students' collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills. The organisation has released a breakdown of its first three skills ...
Donald Clark argues that educational assessment is at a crossroads, squeezed between human nature and AI. Rather than playing a cat-and-mouse game trying to 'catch' cheaters, he advocates changing beh...
The UK government is inviting EdTech companies and AI labs to bid for £300,000 contracts to develop safe, personalised AI tutoring tools for Years 9–10 pupils in English, maths, science and modern for...
Host Isabelle Gonthier is joined by Paul Gollash (SVP of TOEFL and GRE, ETS) and Wally Dalrymple (Chief Security Officer, PSI and ETS) to explore how TOEFL has built a layered security model across re...
Ofqual chief executive Ian Bauckham has warned that scrapping extended writing coursework due to AI cheating concerns is "never off the table." Speaking to FE Week, Bauckham acknowledged that removing...
Ofqual has fined Cambridge OCR £270,000 following 12 errors found in AS and A Level physics exam papers and mark schemes during summer 2025. Over 14,000 students were affected, with 37 receiving incor...
A 2026 study published in Scientific Reports investigates whether early-career dental academicians from research and non-research universities in Malaysia can distinguish ChatGPT-generated abstracts f...