Research at Ofqual
Our research programmes help us to maintain standards and regulate qualifications based on evidence.
Research is at the heart of all Ofqual’s work. We investigate a range of issues relating to how qualifications, exams and other assessments are designed and delivered. This includes how standards in different qualifications are set and maintained and how qualifications and assessment systems work in other countries.
We want our research to be accessible to as many people as possible and we welcome enquiries about our work.
We have collected our research documents, and those of our predecessor organisations, into the following themes:
- Assessment tasks research
- Comparability Studies
- Curriculum research
- Economics research: qualifications
- Evaluation of qualifications reform
- Exam and assessment marking research
- Fairness in assessment research
- Inter-subject comparability
- Inter-subject comparability studies (QCA 2008)
- International comparison in assessment
- Malpractice research: exam and assessment
- Non-exam assessment research
- Perceptions of qualifications
- Reliability of assessment: compendium
- Reliability of assessment research
- Quality of marking research
- Regulation of exams and qualifications research
- Reviews of qualifications standards
- Specific investigations
- Standards and comparability research
- Techniques for monitoring the comparability of exam standards (QCA, 2007)
- Technology and assessment research
- Validity and validation research