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The future of assessment: five principles, five targets for 2025

This report is the result of an experts meeting exploring assessment in universities and colleges and how technology could be used to help address some of the problems and opportunities. 

About this report

  • Published: 10 February 2020
  • Updated: 10 February 2020

Assessment is crucial to the educational process. Done properly, it drives improvement, shapes learner behaviour and provides accountability to employers and others. 

Front cover of future of assessment report

It can also be a source of dissatisfaction, frustration and anxiety. Does it assess the right things? Is it getting the best from learners? Does it take place at the right points in the learning journey? Is it susceptible to cheating? Does it involve a sustainable workload?

Existing and emerging technologies are starting to play a role in changing assessment and could help address these issues, both today and looking into the future. The vision for Education 4.0 is to make assessment smarter, faster, fairer and more effective.

The report sets five targets for the next five years to progress assessment towards being more authentic, accessible, appropriately automated, continuous and secure.

  • Authentic
    Assessments designed to prepare students for what they do next, using technology they will use in their careers
  • Accessible
    Assessments designed with an accessibility-first principle
  • Appropriately automated
    A balance found of automated and human marking to deliver maximum benefit to students
  • Continuous
    Assessment data used to explore opportunities for continuous assessment to improve the learning experience
  • Secure
    Authoring detection and biometric authentication adopted for identification and remote proctoring

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