Assessment Design and Development

AQA Global design new assessments that reflect your national priorities, from early childhood to advanced professional qualification level.

We can:

• Design complete qualifications from initial concept through to certification
• Co-develop specifications and content with your teams
• Review and improve existing qualifications using international benchmarks
• Create assessment materials, marking approaches, and reporting systems
• Provide training and quality assurance to ensure successful implementation

Our teams can deliver end-to-end programmes or strengthen specific parts of your development process.

All our work is informed by experience of delivering qualifications at scale, including academic and technical programmes used in multiple countries worldwide.

We support the design and delivery of assessments that measure applied skills and workplace competence.

Our services include:

• Development of vocational and technical qualifications aligned to country specific industry needs
• Design of practical assessments that reflect real work tasks
• Quality assurance and validation of assessment delivery
• Integration of employer input to ensure relevance and credibility

We can lead the development of new vocational assessments or work alongside your teams to enhance existing provision.

You can find out more about how we support TVET and skills here.

Balanced assessment and delivery systems support better learning and give you more insights into the national education picture.

Our assessment design services include:

• Development of formative assessments to support teaching and learner progress
• Design of summative assessments for certification, selection and national reporting
• Creation of national assessment programmes across subjects and phases
• Alignment between curriculum, teaching, and assessment

Our approach ensures that assessment supports improvement, while also providing robust and comparable results at system level.

Technology-enabled formative assessments give students immediate feedback on their learning and give the teacher rich data about class progress, enabling them to support their students on their individual learning journeys.

Our services include:

• Development of psychometrically advanced assessments, matching your curriculum
• Building computer adaptive testing systems to provide individualised assessment pathways for learners
• Item banking and question development for scalable on-screen delivery
• Real-time reporting to teachers and system leaders

We help organisations design assessments that produce reliable, valid and comparable results. We provide the quantitative expertise needed to establish robust scoring models, performance standards and measurement frameworks for new and existing assessments.

Our experience spans educational assessment, computer-adaptive testing (CAT), professional certification, licensing and regulatory examinations, supporting both digital and paper-based assessment programmes.

Our services include:

• Standard setting to establish and maintain defensible performance standards
• Statistical calibration and equating to support comparability across assessments and assessment cycles
• Psychometric design to support reliability, validity and fairness
• Development of measurement scales and scoring models
• Statistical advice on adaptive testing and item bank calibration
• Technical advice on reporting, comparability and assessment outcomes

By combining statistical expertise with practical psychometrics, we help organisations develop assessment systems that deliver meaningful, defensible and trustworthy results.

Read more about the Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory that supports our approach.