Using assessment data to empower practice

Overview

What you will study

Understanding how to use assessment data effectively is an increasingly important element underpinning teaching and learning. Used well, data has the potential to empower practice, by giving practitioners the confidence to understand individual students, student cohorts, and the quality of the assessments themselves.

By the end of the Using assessment data to empower practice workshop series offered by University of Cambridge you will have:

• Understood the purposes and uses of assessment data, and key terminology

• Interpreted common outputs from assessments, and considered how they can inform practice

• Discovered some of the statistics that can tell us more about assessments themselves, such as facility values, discrimination indices and reliability coefficients

• Used your knowledge and understanding of assessment data to identify impactful ways to positively influence your school or institution