Assessment Development

Building instruments that measure what matters

We research and develop assessment instruments through a systematic process, from construct definition to psychometric evaluation.

Capabilities and research areas

Designing questionnaires and rating scales for clearly defined constructs and intended uses.

Developing tests of knowledge, ability, or skill with specified content, format, and scoring rules.

Specifying what is being measured and how it is expressed in observable behaviour or responses.

Mapping content domains, cognitive levels, and item counts so an assessment represents its target fairly.

Writing, reviewing, and calibrating items, and organising them in maintained banks for reuse.

Gathering evidence on content, response processes, internal structure, relations to other variables, and consequences.

Estimating the consistency and precision of scores using methods suited to the data and design.

Analysing item and test properties to inform revision, scoring, and interpretation.