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23rd July 2026 Global Weekly News Update from the Assessment Community
This week's round-up spans the shifting global landscape of assessment, from tougher anti-cheating measures in Spain and a spy-style pen-cam racket in Punjab, to fresh debates about AI's role in authoring items and shaping student motivation. We look at test anxiety and its effect on performance, industrial action at AQA over pay, and licensing changes for optometrists in Kentucky. Elsewhere, questions of fairness surface repeatedly — Ontario's dynamic online maths test, single-date entrance exams and educational inequality, and exam-driven protests in India. Add in facial recognition tied to…
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