A Cambridge Approach to Assessment

Assessment takes place in the context of national and international legislation, and assessment/qualifications codes and criteria – the latter being predominantly national in character. Assessment development and administration should take due account of legislation and pending changes in legislation. Assessment/qualifications codes and criteria should be viewed as necessary operating frameworks, themselves undergoing change as knowledge of assessment and public policy improves. The development and evaluation of assessment by Cambridge Assessment itself contributes to the corpus of knowledge on assessment. This can yield valuable evidence for the refinement of codes and criteria, as well as new approaches not yet anticipated by, or incorporated in, these codes and criteria – for example, use of item types not yet used in a given subject or occupational area, new types of grading models, etc.