Browsing news: Assessment and measurement

    • Obsessed with Learning Impact? So are we

      Learning and Performance Institute | LEARNING LIVE | People Untapped |

      People Untapped CEO, Marisa Knowles, to reveal more about their obsession with learning impact at LEARNING LIVE.

    • Using generative AI in item development: What does the future hold?

      Learning and Performance Institute | LEARNINGLIVE, 11-12 Sep 2024: Pearson VUE |

      Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have produced both excitement and uncertainty across many industries, and the global assessments landscape is no exception. As AI has become more powerful and accessible, high-stakes testing methods have evolved in parallel. An increasing number of exam content creators have started actively exploring how AI technologies might be used to develop test items for a range of assessments. With AI dominating media headlines around the world, Neil Wilkinson, Manager of Content for EMEA and India, at Pearson VUE, explores some of the key considerations and what the future holds for item development and AI.

    • Measuring impact

      Learning News | Kevin M. Yates, Learning Technologies 2023 |

      The L&D Detective, Kevin M. Yates, with Rob Clarke from Learning News at Learning Technologies 2023.

    • Kineo Analytics launches

      Learning News | Kineo, Learning Technologies 2023 |

      Andy Costello explains Kineo’s new analytics service and why it is included with every content project.

    • Learning Impact Gold

      Features | Imparta |

      Learning News interview with Alejandra Chilczenko, from Imparta, which won Learning Impact Gold at the Learning Awards.

    • Learning Impact Gold

      Learning News | Imparta |

      Learning News interview with Alejandra Chilczenko, from Imparta, which won Learning Impact Gold at the Learning Awards.

    • Improving L&D‘s relationship with business impact

      Learning News | Learning Changemakers |

      On this day, the day of taking time to think about loving relationships, Laura Overton takes a unique look at L&D and business impact in this insightful and fun but equally thought-provoking article.

    • eAssessment helps improve National Health Service patient care

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      One of the UK’s pioneer bodies for training scientists working in the National Health Service (NHS) is using the eAssessment platform developed by eCom Learning Solutions, Scotland’s leading digital learning and assessment specialist.

    • Geoscientists’ competency assessment comes to Australia

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      Australia is the latest continent to get a taste of a new online self-assessment tool to benchmark the skills within the international operations geoscience community and identify individuals’ skills gaps. The tool enables operations geoscientists, in the oil and gas sector, to objectively assess the level of their current skills - which they need to be successful in their role.

    • Online assessments add value for oil and gas industry stakeholders

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      Within the oil and gas drilling industry – a key part of a sector that produced revenues of some $3.3 trillion in 2019 and comprises some 3.8% of the global economy - the use of online assessment (eAssessment) is demonstrably improving the assessment process, as well as streamlining the operations of organisations and, thus, providing added value to their stakeholders.

    • Bahamas’ Institute benefits from eCom Scotland eAssessment Platform

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      With over half its multi-million dollar revenue regularly coming from clients outside the UK, the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland is used to working with organisations in far-flung, often exotic and, sometimes, remote parts of the world. Among these is the far-from remote but no-less-exotic Bahamas, where one of its professional institutes is benefiting from using eCom’s eAssessment platform with the hundreds of students studying for qualifications on its 16 or so regular programmes.

    • Online Assessment Tool Highlighted at GeoConvention 2021

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      Following several major incidents, the energy industry is keen to use only those operations practitioners who, when responsible for delivering work used in safety-critical aspects of planning and executing wells, can demonstrate their competency. The legal – and environmental - consequences of failing to prove this are serious; yet demonstrating competency can be challenging for these practitioners.

    • Eagle Point Software acquires UK-based KnowledgeSmart

      Learning News | Acquisitions |

      Eagle Point and provider of architecture, engineering and construction software has acquired KnowledgeSmart, a provider of skills gap analysis and benchmarking services for AEC firms.

    • GP Strategies Launches Measurement Academy

      GP Strategies | London |

      GP Strategies brings its award-winning business impact measurement process to the Measurement Academy; a 10 week learning journey which proves and improves the impact of learning programmes.

    • Online Assessment Tool Developed for Geoscientists

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      Comprising some 3.8% of the global economy, with revenues of some $3.3 trillion in 2019, the oil and gas drilling industry affects the life of every person on the planet. Yet, until recently, there was no objective measure of the knowledge, skills and competency levels of the operational geoscientists who play a key role in the industry’s activities.

    • eCom Scotland’s Solutions to the Assessment Challenges of the 2020s

      eCom Learning Solutions | Dunfermline, Scotland |

      'Advancing Observational Assessment and Evaluation in the Workforce' was the subject of learning technologies specialist Emma Dickson’s presentation to the international seminar, ‘Assessment Challenges of Our New Decade’, organised by Beyond Multiple Choice (BMC) and held on 21st April.

    • Measuring the business impact of learning

      Learning News | London |

      Interview with Piers Lea and David Ells, authors of the 5th annual report into the progress L&D is making with measuring the business impact of learning programmes.

    • Annual Industry-Wide Learning Measurement Survey Now Open, Enters Fifth Year

      LEO |

      LEO Learning and Watershed’s annual ‘Measuring the Business Impact of Learning’ survey is now open. Now in its fifth year, this year’s survey will benchmark L&D responses to learning measurement and impact, and include new remote working and learning challenges this year has brought.

    • Learning has an engagement problem

      Fuse Universal | London |

      Learning has an engagement problem. And we're looking in the wrong place for the answer. The learning industry is right to be worried about engagement. It should be looking to increase engagement with good quality learning and developmental resources which enable an individual to increase their effectiveness, performance and happiness - both today and tomorrow.

    • PSI to deliver Secure English Language Test (SELT) for overseas UK visa applicants

      PSI Services LLC | London, UK |

      PSI Services LLC, a global workforce solutions provider of best-in-class assessment content, leading-edge technology, and deep consulting expertise across the career life cycle, today confirmed that it has reached a commercial arrangement with the UK Home Office to deliver the Secure English Language Test, or SELT, for overseas UK visa applicants.

    • AAT awards PSI worldwide assessment contract for accounting qualifications

      PSI Services LLC | London, UK |

      PSI Services (UK) Limited (PSI), a global provider of assessment services, leading-edge technology and talent management solutions, has been awarded a contract by AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) to provide the high-stakes test platform for its accounting qualifications worldwide.

    • Ten Key Questions for Would-be Buyers of Learning Management Systems

      eLearning Industry | San Francisco, CA, USA |

      An article from the network-based media and publishing company, eLearning Industry, sets out ten key questions that would-be buyers of learning management systems (LMSs) should ask when they experience a demo of the software.

    • ‘Pure Inspiration’: Turning Dreams into Reality at eLA Conference on ‘Uniting Africa’

      eLearning Africa |

      Africa’s biggest conference on learning, training and technology, eLearning Africa, will take place in Rwanda this year. Among the keynote speakers at the event, which will be held, under the patronage of the Rwandan Government, in the Kigali Convention Centre from 26 – 28 September, will be some of the biggest names in global education and technology.