Expanding Our Reach to Better Serve the Middle East Region AlphaPlus is delighted to announce the opening of a new office branch in Bahrain. This strategic move underlines our commitment … AlphaPlus Opens New Office Branch in Bahrain
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Tom Mitchell, Alphaplus’ Director of Qualifications, discusses how AlphaPlus supports government agencies in aligning their TVET systems with labour market needs. AlphaPlus has worked with a number of Government agencies … Supporting skills’ policy by aligning TVET systems with labour market needs
Gemma O’Brien, AlphaPlus’ National Programme Lead for Personalised Assessments in Wales, introduces sample-based assessments, how they work and why they are a useful tool for policy makers looking for evidence … Sample-based assessments
AlphaPlus is proud to have won the 2024 Association for Project Management (APM) PMO (Project Management Office) of the Year Award at the APM Project Management Awards held on Monday … APM awards PMO of the Year winner 2024
At AlphaPlus we have extensive experience of designing and developing OSCEs across a range of clinical and healthcare contexts. In this article, Assessment Manager Gemma O’Brien discusses some of the … Designing effective Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
Heather Venis, AlphaPlus’ Senior Project Manager (Qualifications), gives practical guidance for awarding organisations looking to develop a qualification. What’s in a qualification? When embarking on a qualification project, one of … Should my learning programme be a qualification?
1. Introduction Training is crucial in many education and assessment organisations: AQA AlphaPlus is recognised as a leading provider of training related to assessment, e-assessment and associated processes. We have delivered … Empowering Educators: Effective Assessment Training for Staff
What is the International Early Learning Study? The International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS) is an international survey that assesses children at age 5 who attend Early Childhood … Understanding the development of empathy in childhood
AlphaPlus is proud to announce that we have now gained the Great Place To Work Certification™. Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. They help organisations quantify their culture and … Great Place To Work
The challenges of closing the virtuous circle of teaching, learning and formative assessment
Dave Mellor, AlphaPlus’ Director of Assessment shares his thoughts on the challenges of closing the virtuous circle of teaching, learning and formative assessment. When teachers plan their lessons, they set … The challenges of closing the virtuous circle of teaching, learning and formative assessment
Unconscious bias: a prejudice or stereotype individuals hold about certain groups of people that they aren’t consciously aware of having. We are all guilty of it. Born with a predisposition … Key lessons from an evaluation exploring unconscious bias
AlphaPlus is delighted to announce that we are working with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to deliver the International Early Learning Child Well-being Study in England on … Department for Education – International Early Learning Child Well-being Study
John Winkley Director of Business Development shares his thoughts about on-screen formative assessments. Formative assessment is the process used by a teacher or learner to review and check learning, with … What are on-screen formative assessments?
Professional standards and national assessments Professional standards set out the skills, knowledge and behaviours that represent technical and ethical competence for a profession and support professional growth. Professional standards can: … Challenges Facing Professional Organisations
Hannah Rowe and Priya Dutta, Assessment Managers at AlphaPlus, talk about their experience working with the Department for Education on the National Assessment Accreditation System (NAAS). Background AlphaPlus worked with … Developing assessments for the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS)
Ben Rockliffe, AlphaPlus’s Deputy Director of Assessment explains how to ensure assessment content is inclusive of culture, equality and diversity. As an international education services company specialising in assessment, AlphaPlus … Culture, equality and diversity within assessment content
AlphaPlus has been acquired by AQA, the UK’s leading assessment organisation. AQA is the UK’s biggest exam board, setting and marking around half the GCSEs and A-levels taken in England … AlphaPlus acquisition – press release
No matter who is sitting an assessment – whether they are learners in a school or candidates for a professional assessment – it is crucial that inclusion and accessibility have … Inclusion & accessibility in assessment design
AlphaPlus has been working on behalf of the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) to improve the quality of mentoring in the FE and training sector through the designing and delivering … Mentoring in the FE & training sector
Demand for remote invigilation (or remote proctoring – the two terms are used interchangeably) has grown significantly during the current pandemic, as awarding organisations (AOs) have been forced to find new solutions … Remote invigilation – lessons learned during the pandemic