Benefits
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors offers many benefits. As professionals in their field, our members hold a unique and crucial place in the nation’s education and training system, which is reflected in the services we deliver. In addition, membership supports a variety of professional standards and bodies.
As well as being part of the largest independent community of examiners, markers, assessors and verifiers in the UK, membership gives you access to the following:
Member benefit | Associate, Member or Fellow member | Affiliate member | Free student membership |
The value of being part of a unique, international community dedicated to improving standards in educational assessment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Access to The CIEA Professional Framework, providing the basis for structured professional development in assessment, offering a route for professional progression and recognition from acceptance as an Associate Member to Full Member or Fellow of the CIEA | Yes | Yes | No |
The opportunity to access high quality training by experts to support accreditation of individuals and institutions (fees apply, please see the Training pages for further information). | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Use of Post-nominals recognising your level of expertise in educational assessment, demonstration of your commitment to professional standards, integrity and ethics and demonstration of your commitment to your continuous professional development. | Yes | No | No |
Opportunity to vote on CIEA matters | Yes | No | No |
Additional opportunity for accreditation as a Chartered Educational Assessor, the benchmark of excellence awarded under the CIEA Royal Charter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Access to the Member Area on our website, providing past newsletters, articles, feedback from Special Interest Groups and access to our library of previous event video recordings | Yes | Yes | No |
Our monthly e-newsletter On the Mark which provides details about events, news, member interviews, current topics and much more | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Priority booking for CIEA webinars which are well attended and feature leaders in the field of educational assessment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The opportunity to participate in our Special Interest Groups; and the opportunity to lead one of them | Yes | Yes | No |
The potential to be invited to speak at our events | Yes | Yes | No |
The opportunity to write guest blogs that appear in our monthly e-newsletter On the Mark and on social media | Yes | Yes | No |
The opportunity to take part in a 60 second interview which will be published in our monthly e-newsletter On the Mark and in the members area on our website | Yes | Yes | No |
The opportunity to submit an ‘Opinion piece’ for our monthly e-newsletter On the Mark | Yes | Yes | No |