Independent advice for organisations that build, deliver or regulate assessment: edtech and assessment companies, publishers and credentialing bodies, training providers, universities, and school systems.
How we work with youAn assessment product, program, system or set of claims examined before a board decision, an audit, a launch or a purchase. We work through the evidence and tell you what it supports.
Assessment Assurance ReviewAssessment architecture, item and task design, adaptive and digital delivery, reporting, validity planning, and redesigning assessment so it still works now that generative AI is everywhere.
Assessment RedesignExperienced judgment inside product, quality, strategy and commercial decisions, without creating a permanent executive role.
Embedded Head of AssessmentEvery engagement is scoped in writing around the decision you're facing. You'll know the price before you commit, and you keep everything we produce.
A working session with your leadership team on a specific assessment, integrity or product question. Useful when you need a clear view before committing to a bigger piece of work.
A fixed-scope review of an assessment product, program or system. We examine the evidence, identify the material risks and give you a prioritised set of actions in writing.
For organisations building or significantly changing their assessment. Depending on the scope, this can cover architecture, validity, item systems, digital delivery, reporting, AI integrity and implementation.
For RTOs and training providers. We plan and run your validation cycle, review assessment tools and keep the evidence in order under the current Standards, so you're ready when the audit comes. We've delivered accredited training ourselves, so we know what a trainer, an assessor and an auditor each need to see.
Experienced assessment leadership inside your team, on retainer, for product roadmaps, quality assurance, vendor decisions, technical questions, reporting and validation.
Publishers, edtech, assessment providers, credentialing businesses and learning companies that are building, buying or scaling assessment.
Universities and colleges redesigning assessment, strengthening assurance of learning, responding to generative AI or building better program-level evidence.
RTOs and providers that need stronger assessment tools, validation, authenticity and governance under the current Standards. Advice from people who have delivered accredited training.
Leadership teams making important decisions about assessment strategy, procurement, reporting, data and program quality.
Assessment problems rarely sit in one discipline. A technically sound assessment can fail in implementation, a good product can make claims its evidence doesn't support, and a sophisticated report can still leave a decision-maker unsure what to do next. This practice works across all of them.
Client work is confidential. Names, logos and case studies are only used with permission.
An assessment earns trust when the evidence supports the decisions made from it. Format, automation and reporting should serve that purpose.
Generative AI can't be managed by detection alone. Assessment has to be designed so that the evidence of what a person can do is observable and defensible.
If assessment data never changes a program, a grouping, a product or a purchase, it isn't doing its job. Reporting should be designed around the decisions it has to support.
Item quality, scoring, adaptivity and validation are technical work. Where the scope needs deeper psychometric or specialist expertise, we bring it in.
Most engagements start with an email. We'll tell you whether we can help, what the first piece of work would look like and what it would cost. If you go ahead, the scope is agreed in writing before we start.
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Based in Australia. We work with clients anywhere.
