Best Summative Assessment Project

Arden University, a digital-first institution with 27,000 students across 32 countries had just nine months to develop a sustainable, scalable assessment solution or revert to costly, logistically complex in-person exams that would disadvantage many students. Aligning with its mission to ensure geographical constraints and personal and professional commitments do not prevent ambitious individuals from pursuing high-quality education, the university designed an approach that supported both remote and in-person assessment globally, providing students with a consistent, fair exam experience regardless of location. The immediate impact: • Students could sit exams without travel constraints. • Staff benefited from streamlined processes. • The university ensured compliance with PSRB standards while reinforcing its commitment to digital-first, accessible education.

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) is an international music education charity. With a candidate population across nearly 100 countries, the delivery of ABRSM music theory exams has a global impact. Equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) considerations are a critical focus – to both meet the needs of a diverse candidate population and ensure the future success of the charity. ABRSM partnered with PSI to move from paper-based music theory exams in a traditional exam hall setting to computer-based exams using record and review online proctoring. To ensure the ongoing success of this significant assessment transformation project, it was critical for both organisations to be aligned in their intention to place diverse candidates at the centre of the new approach and deliver accessible assessments globally.

The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB), under the Ministry of Education, serves as a trusted authority overseeing national and non-national examinations across 400 schools. SEAB undertook a large-scale transformation to modernize its examination delivery infrastructure. To address these challenges, SEAB transitioned to a centralized, web-based platform hosted in the secure Government Cloud. This transformation enhanced scalability, supporting 80,000 annual registrations and 25,000 concurrent users while enabling rapid expansion to new test centers without complex infrastructure investments. SEAB’s assessments grew to include coursework, oral assessment, assessment using multi-media interactive items, and more. Multi-layer redundancy and offline capabilities ensured seamless exam delivery, reinforcing SEAB’s mission of leaving no candidate behind.