Browsing news: Assessment and measurement

    • BTL e-Assessment Tools Ranked Number One in Recent UKCDR Analysis

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      The University of Manchester's UKCDR project team (UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Exams) found that BTL e-Assessment solutions came out on top in their independent study analysing current e-Assessment tools. The study, funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), was conducted to determine which tools could potentially form part of an e-Assessment solution that would be sophisticated enough to support in house and national examinations.

    • BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      - An Essential Course for Authors Facing the Challenge of Creating e-Assessments - BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of e-Assessment solutions, has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of highly experienced educational consultants with extensive experience in e-Assessments, to launch the 'e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course'.

    • SQA Releases White Paper on Sustainable Development of e-Assessment

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), a prominent BTL Group Ltd customer, has released a white paper, Innovating Assessment in Scotland, outlining a sustainable model of e-Assessment development utilising BTL's state-of-the-art authoring tool, ContentProducer.

    • TDA awards BTL 3 year e-Assessment contract for test development

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent learning and assessment solutions provider, is pleased to announce the award of a new 3-year contract with the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) for the content development of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) skills tests.

    • BTL provides AAT with complete e-Assessment solution

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider is pleased to announce that they will be assisting the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) with a three-year project to move from traditional paper based exams to On-Screen delivery.

    • SQA signs landmark e-Assessment contract with BTL

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider, announced today that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has selected BTL to provide an enterprise wide e-assessment development and delivery system.

    • Alpha Plus/BTL white paper reviews the current and future vision of e-assessments

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL, in partnership with AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd, has produced a highly informative white paper on the current market for e-assessment, taking into consideration the drivers for change and development, and presenting a vision of where e-assessment could be in five years’ time.

    • WoLLNET project to use BTL e-Assessment tools

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL is delighted to announce that it will be the ‘Technology’ partner in the Workplace Literacy, Language and Numeracy Evaluation Toolkit Project (WoLLNET).

    • BTL converts 13 National Qualification ESOL units into interactive assessments

      BTL | Shipley, United Kingdom |

      BTL Group Ltd is pleased to announce that it has completed an 18 month project to convert 13 National Qualification English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) units into e-Enabled and interactive formats for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). The 13 ESOL units will be created as a SCORM package and also made available as CD ROMs.