Browsing news: Assessment and measurement

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

      Learning and Performance Institute | LearningLive: 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.

    • KX Academy launches

      Learning News | KX Academy, London |

      KX launches on-demand training portal that widens access to game-changing Real-Time Analytics.