37 delegates and speakers attended our 28th conference, hosted by Dragos Iliescu and his team in Bucharest Romania, over 7th and 8th June 2018. We welcomed Motibo to their first ETPG meeting and during this meeting Eligo, who were in attendance, were voted on as a full member.

Dragos proposed a number of ways we could work more closely with other organisations to improve European tests and testing.

These initiatives included:

• Being involved as a reviewer on the working party for the revision of the ITC guidelines on computer -based assessment. They’re working with ATP on a revision. There’s a formal invitation for ETPG to be involved. The first on-line meeting is in 1-2 weeks. Will involve 2-3 people for 2-4 hours a month.
  Becoming a Class C liaison for the revision of ISO 10667: The original version has not been a success.
• Joining the EFPA Board of Assessment as an observer. The board’s agenda includes issues such as a meta-code of ethics, EUROPSY and the EFPA Test Review structure and method; these are all areas we are interested in.
• We agreed to try to create stronger communication with EFPA, ITC and ISO.

External speakers for the conference included:

• Andre Miu: The impact of Neuroscience on psychological testing – Hype or hope?
• Andre Ostacie: Technology opportunities that can help drive the psychometrics industry forward.
• Ioan Dumitraşcu: GDPR-Practical Issues.

We also discussed a number of group initiatives issues, designed to widen our membership, speed up decision making processes and ensure we are outward-looking.