AI dominated the conversation at the 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence from 21 to 25 July 2026. Delegates were no longer asking whether AI will change assessment, but how it is already changing the way tests are built, delivered, scored and used. For test publishers and test users, the bigger question underneath was quality: who sets the standard for a good test, and how does that standard reach practice?

ETPG members were visible across the congress as sponsors, exhibitors, presenters, chairs and panellists. Hogrefe and Giunti Psychometrics were main sponsors, and ETPG’s Executive Director Ian Florance joined a well-attended roundtable on the updated EFPA Test Review Model. This paper summarises what ETPG members contributed and what we heard.

The paper discusses the following areas:

  • How AI is changing test development, delivery, integrity and the use of results

  • The updated EFPA Test Review Model (version 5.0)

  • Nine pressures on assessment quality, from technology to the market and legal frameworks

  • What this means for test publishers and test users

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