Cambridge CEM Blog

Read the latest articles on education and assessment written by teachers, school leaders and assessment experts.

Get Creative with Online Teaching and Assessments

By Mary George, IGCSE and IB Educator, Consultant in International Education

Using formative assessment to support student resilience

By Natasha Arain, CEM Assessment Lead, Cambridge Assessment, and Mark Frazer, Teaching and Learning...

Five basics of baseline assessment

Assessment is the bridge between teaching and learning. When done well, assessment can drive...

How well do we understand wellbeing?

Research in an extraordinary educational era

2020/21 has been a year like no other. The COVID-19...

Next steps in assessment

"It is critical to conduct learning assessments to evaluate their effectiveness, improve their...

Teachers’ tips

It’s been a crazy year, full of changes and challenges. Students and teachers have been in and out...

4 Signs of an effective Early Years Classroom

"Effective early years is the game changer."

– Lydia Cuddy Gibbs, Head of Early Years, Ark

Why the...

Professor Christine Merrell

On 9th January Professor Christine Merrell, my dear friend and irreplaceable colleague of 25 years,...

ABC’s of CEM

We are starting the year off by going back to basics and looking at what our assessments are all...

COVID-19 and learning loss

There is no research that can show us what the educational impact of COVID-19 school closures might...