Best Workplace or Talent Assessment Project Award

Achieve+Partners and Eintech Awarding Body and End-point Assessment organisation Achieve+Partners, and e-learning/e-assessment tech business Eintech, have come together in a truly collaborative partnership to deliver a unique assessor-led system. Apprenticeships require a high-stakes assessment, which until now has been a complex process from booking through testing, marking, grading, data storage and quality assurance. What used to take days can now all be done in one place with a few clicks, can be carried out live in the workplace, and the assessor doesn’t need to be a tech expert to do it.

RM Amplify Trading was founded in 2009 to develop traders equipped to perform in the new era of global markets. Using technology to bridge the gap between theory and practice, their innovative approach to capital markets training is now used by many of the world’s largest financial firms to find and develop their next market leaders. Amplify Trading wanted to develop a new Corporate Finance Simulation product to serve the growing Mergers and Acquisitions market. Traditional assessment techniques lacked what was needed to properly identify underlying skills and competencies in this highly competitive and demanding domain. Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) provided a unique assessment approach which encouraged diverse responses and allowed for holistic consideration. It also enabled and encouraged peer assessment as another talent identification opportunity. Amplify Trading partnered with Assessment from RM and its ACJ product, RM Compare. This ground-breaking collaboration has produced an innovative solution to a unique problem, namely the rigorous judging and ranking of subjective candidate pitch deck. In doing so it has been used successfully by a number of world leading financial institutions and premier university business schools to successfully identify and nurture early career talent.

Keelson Marine Assurance and TestReach Based in Texas, Keelson Marine Assurance provides consultancy including expert witness services to the shipping industry, and specifically services for Dynamic Positioning (DP). Offshore oil and wind industries use DP to facilitate drilling, dive support and personnel transfer. A failure in DP can cause a ship to lose position or heading which can be hazardous to people, the environment and be costly to rectify. Lack of knowledge among crews often contributes to incidents. Keelson’s CPD programme allows ship crews to take an online test, usually onboard, and receive a report summarising performance mapped against key subject areas, with guidance on areas to improve. A second test is taken to show if / where knowledge has improved. By integrating the assessment for learning into the physical workplace environment, the ship, candidates are in the right context to apply that learning. TestReach ensures all topics and learning pathways are included appropriately in randomised papers, and assessments can be accessed according to shipping schedules and at any location. The programme generates powerful data, allowing granular analysis between ship roles, vessels and locations, which now influences industry-level decision making. The programme has positively impacted employee engagement, enhanced safety offshore and contributes to vessel up-time.