Quality Assurance and Standards

Helping you to provide trusted assessments and qualifications

Ensuring the quality and credibility of qualifications is a major challenge for many education systems.

Governments and assessment providers must balance consistency with flexibility, maintain standards over time, and build trust among learners and employers. At the same time, rapid reform, increased participation, and the use of new assessment technologies can make quality assurance more complex and harder to manage at scale.

AQA Global works with you to address these challenges in a practical and sustainable way.

We combine independent expertise with hands-on support, helping you strengthen quality processes while building capability within your own organisation. We can review and improve existing systems, or design new frameworks that are clear, consistent, and aligned to international best practice.

Our goal is to help you create a system where qualifications are trusted, standards are maintained over time, and decisions are supported by robust evidence. This enables your education system to demonstrate credibility both nationally and internationally, and to provide fair, reliable outcomes for all learners.

Every year we create over 10,000 questions for 900 high-stakes tests

and over 1,000,000 students sit our exams

How can AQA Global help you?

We offer a range of bespoke services, crafted specifically to support you in maintaining high-standards.

These are just some examples of the services our team can provide.

Psychometric analysis: We provide independent statistical and psychometric analysis to evaluate the quality and performance of assessments. Our work helps organisations understand how well their assessments function and provide the technical evidence needed to support confidence in assessment outcomes.
Our expertise covers educational assessments, adaptive testing, professional certification and high-stakes licensing examinations, applying modern statistical and psychometric methods across a wide range of assessment contexts.
We can:
Evaluate reliability, validity and measurement precision
Analyse item and test performance using psychometric methods
Investigate bias, differential item functioning (DIF) and fairness
Review standard setting and support the maintenance of performance standards
Evaluate calibration, equating and comparability across assessment cycles
Monitor assessment quality through ongoing statistical analysis
Provide independent technical reviews and evidence-based recommendations for improvement
Whether undertaking a one-off technical review or providing ongoing psychometric support, we help organisations maintain assessments that continue to perform fairly, consistently and reliably.
Regulatory recognition: If you are seeking formal recognition from UK regulators, our experience of UK frameworks helps reduce risk and improve your chances of recognition.
We can:
Guide you through regulatory requirements and expectations
Review your systems, policies, and procedures for compliance
Prepare documentation to support recognition applications
Provide advice throughout the application and review process

Our work

Regulatory Compliance Audits

See how we have been helping UK awarding organisations review their policies and processes to help them ensure ongoing compliance with requirements from regulators.

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Internationally aligned assessments

By improving the quality, consistency and usefulness of data on student literacy and numeracy, the Kyrgyz Republic is advancing towards internationally recognised standards in education.

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