The expertise centre for securing and advancing the quality of examination.

RCEC, Research Centre for Examination and Certification, is the leading expertise centre for securing and advancing the quality of examination. As an audit organisation, we assess the quality of educational tests and exams. From our position as an advisory organisation and academy we support institutions in the formal school system and in the field of commercial education and in-service training with the construction, administration, scoring and evaluation of tests and exams. In this way we do justice to decisions by, about and for talent.

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Audit

Use the RCEC quality mark to demonstrate that your organisation offers tests and exams in accordance with the highest quality standards.

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Advice

We support your organisation with practical research, data-driven innovation and psychometric
services.

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Academy

We offer intra-company and online
training tailored to your needs
on qualitative exams and applied psychometrics.

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Latest news

Investigation into unwanted predictability in images of Central Bureau for Driving Licences theory exams

Friday 1 September 2023

RCEC has again investigated predictability in the item banks of car, motorbike and moped theory exams. This time, the study analysed the characteristics of thousands of images. No unwanted predictability The aim of this study was to detect unwanted predictability in the image features, such as road users, colours and road layout. From the research,

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RCEC initiates collaboration with the National Center for Education Research and Evaluation, Taldau, in Kazakhstan

Thursday 31 August 2023

The National Center for Education Research and Evaluation Taldau, named after the renowned Kazakh intellectual Akhmet Baitursynuly, has received a directive from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The directive entails the center’s responsibility to modernize the current national student monitoring system over the next two years. This initiative is named “National

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RCEC provides Competency-Based Assessment training for the Uganda National Examinations Board

Friday 7 July 2023

From 19 to 26 June, Arnold Brouwer conducted a Competency-Based Assessment training on behalf of RCEC for some 40 Examinations Development Officers from the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) in Kampala, Uganda. UNEB is a government organisation established by an Act of Parliament. It is the national assessment body and comes under the Ministry of

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