CEM is a not-for-profit organisation and part of Durham University, based in North East England. We play a wide-ranging and influential role in education. Our services fall into the following areas:
Assessment & Monitoring Systems for Schools, Colleges and Education Authorities
CEM is the largest independent provider of educational monitoring systems in the world and has been running for 25 years. It is also the largest provider of computer-adaptive assessments outside the United States, offering a suite of information systems for children aged 3-18 in the UK and internationally. The systems , ALIS, Yellis, INSIGHT, MidYIS, SOSCA, InCAS, PIPS, ASPECTS and P scales, are used by thousands of schools to assess the progress made by over a million children every year. We also create specialist diagnostic and entrance tests. CEM has several satellite centres around the world.
Educational Research & Evaluation
CEM is the largest educational research unit in a UK university and publishes a range of papers and reports. We house one of the largest educational data banks in the UK that extends over more than two decades with information from a broad wide of schools and pupils on a broad range of characteristics. We also provide specialist research and evaluation services to the public and private sectors, and work with a range of organisations, including universities and government bodies.
Teaching, Training and CPD
We deliver a programme of specialist school/college monitoring and assessment training linked to our systems and research in local venues for teachers and authority representatives, and host a range of conferences in the UK and internationally. As part of Durham University we work closely with the University’s School of Education on research to provide teaching and study supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Our Aim
At the heart of all our activity is the fundamental aim to improve teaching and learning across society today and tomorrow. We endeavour to provide high quality information through a scientific and evidence-based approach.
We are committed to:
- applying the best standards of science to the development and evaluation of policies
- evidence, rather than authority or opinion, as the guide to practice
- collecting gold-standard evidence by using controlled trials wherever possible
- quantification to give accurate answers and keep things ‘in perspective’
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