Professional development opportunities are waiting for you this September
Cambridge Assessment Network
Professional development for impactful assessment
Hello and welcome to the September edition of The Assessment Network's monthly learning update!
For many of our audience working at schools around the world, September marks the beginning of a new academic year. It's an excellent time for assessment practitioners to think about their professional development and the training they can undertake to progress it.
This month, we have the first announcements about next year's Assessment Horizons conference and share how you can help shape it.
You can also find details of all our upcoming training events, including a free webinar from our Research Division on learners who leave post-16 education with low A level grades.
Discover these upcoming assessment training opportunities
An interactive series of workshops introducing item banking theory, practice and delivery, with an opportunity to discuss the relevance of item banking in your own context.
Courses available: 8 Oct-22 Oct 2025
This interactive workshop will describe the different approaches to mark scheme design and provide practical guidance on how to optimise your mark schemes.
Courses available: 14 Oct 2025
This series of two interactive online workshops will explore how generative AI tools can be incorporated within our assessments.
Enrol before 3 Oct for the early bird price of £150!
Courses available: 4 Nov-11 Nov 2025
A series of three interactive workshops that will cover the basic concepts of Computer Adaptive Tests (CATs) and their use in different assessment contexts.
Enrol before 1 Oct for the early bird price of £200!
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Courses available: 12 Nov-26 Nov 2025
A series of four interactive online workshops on the principles of writing good exam questions. A comprehensive guide to the effective development of assessments and individual items with practical information and opportunities to evaluate a range of questions and mark schemes.
Courses available: 13 Nov-4 Dec 2025
An exciting new presentation from our Research Division
Curious to learn more about what happens to students who leave post-16 education with low A level grades?
Join us for an online webinar where Carmen Vidal Rodeiro and Tim Gill will share findings from their research using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset, exploring students’ progression, training, and employment outcomes and what this means for policy and practice.
Save the date: Assessment Horizons is back!
Mark your calendars for 23 and 24 April 2026, as our flagship conference will return next year – in Cambridge and online!
Be the first to hear speaker announcements and programme updates - join our conference mailing list to be the first to get all the information.
Help us design a conference that matters to you.
Take our quick survey and tell us what our conference programme should look like for 2026.
Thank you for joining us for the September edition of our monthly learning update.
We hope you'll take a few minutes to help make the 2026 Assessment Horizons conference our best one yet.
We also hope to see you over the coming weeks at our workshops and webinars.
If you have any questions about any of our courses or would like to discuss group booking discounts for your school or organisation, email us at thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk
