The research behind Asset Languages

Asset Languages is committed to ensuring that the assessments are fair and provide an accurate measure of candidates’ true abilities. Our quality control procedures are underpinned by detailed research and analysis.

Our Research Agenda for Asset Languages is very comprehensive. A few examples include:

Comparability across languages
The relationship of Asset Languages assessments to existing qualifications
Comparability across paper-based and computer-based assessments
The impact of Asset Languages assessments on teaching and the motivation of learners

These are very broad areas and each one will be explored with a number of different projects. For example, we aim to have comparability across our assessments at different languages at each stage. With many languages, six stages, assessments for primary, secondary and post-16 learners, paper-based and computer-based assessments, achieving such comparability is a demanding task but essential to maintaining the standards of the assessments.

Getting involved - what’s in it for you?

Working together with centres is a very effective way to research these areas. Therefore, we may contact you or your centre and ask you to be involved in research that we are doing. Working with us on research projects is a great way for you to become more involved in Asset Languages and also to help us learn more in the process. By taking part in research projects, you gain an inside knowledge of the scheme and are also able to influence how future materials develop and help us to ensure that Asset Languages assessments are both of high quality and motivating for learners.

OCR reserves the right to use speaking and writing samples (or extracts from them) on an anonymous basis for the purpose of standardisation and training.