Membership benefits

Our members enjoy a wide range of benefits including access to a dedicated Member area on this website, a termly magazine, networking opportunities, financial advice, unlimited access to the CIEA Research Database and much more.


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Knowledge centre

You can use this website to access comprehensive and up-to-date educational assessment information, research, articles and publications.


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Continuing Professional Development

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Overview

Within this section of the website you will find the IEA Professional Framework and all its associated materials. It gives you an in-depth view of the skills and competencies associated with the Professional Framework. It allows you to analyse your own skills, to analyse the skills of those members of the team with which you work and to look for advice and guidance to support those specific skills or to improve them.

Assessment Compendia

The compendia on the following pages have been designed by practitioners to help you improve your skill levels.
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Chartered Educational Assessor

The granting of chartered status to the IEA is a profoundly important event. It endorses our objective of professionalising the process of assessment and allows the CIEA to develop a programme of continuing professional development that will be genuinely world class. The Charter, together with this programme, puts assessment on a par with professional activities in other fields such as engineering, HR and marketing.
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CIEA Professional Framework

The Institute has worked closely with all major stakeholder groups to produce the CIEA Professional Framework.
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TLA Stage 1 Recognition

The granting of chartered status to the IEA is a profoundly important event. It endorses our objective of professionalising the process of assessment and allows the CIEA to develop a programme of continuing professional development that will be genuinely world class. The Charter, together with this programme, puts assessment on a par with professional activities in other fields such as engineering, HR and marketing.
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AfL National Strategy

The Assessment for Learning (AfL) strategy is now live and materials are ready to download.
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Assessment Skills Gap Analysis

The assessment skills gap analysis is an interactive tool that will allow you to analyse the competencies in which you are secure when working in assessment, as well as highlight any areas of development with which you may need support. At the end of the process you will be presented with a spider gram that will summarise your skills and competencies and will suggest tools, resources and training that will help you to improve your capability.
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