Our Mission: To positively impact educational and career opportunities by empowering organizations to make better assessments with AI and easy-to-use software.
Assessment Systems was founded with the sole purpose of modernizing assessments to maximize educational and career opportunities.
David Weiss, Ph.D., and David Vale, Ph.D. – our founding fathers – were the pioneers of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and the use of item response theory (IRT). They noticed that traditional assessment models were biased and flawed in many ways. The underserved many examinees while wasting time and producing inaccurate scores.
Their passion and commitment to re-inventing how we do educational and workforce assessment led to extensive funding from the US government as part of their groundbreaking research on IRT/CAT at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s.
Assessment Systems was hence born; to share this game-changing discovery with the world.
Dr. David J. Weiss (L) and Dr. David Vale (R)
Assessment Systems has been a trusted provider in computerized testing since its inception. We were involved with the first research on computerized assessment in the 1960s and 1970s, and built the first publicly available software for adaptive testing and item response theory in the early 1980s.
Our team is dedicated to improving assessment. Of course, a large part of this is quality software with modern psychometric technology. But we also provide extensive training and consulting services, where our expertise can be directly applied to your assessments. We help organizations all over the world to apply modern psychometrics to their assessment processes. We frequently present at industry conferences (example to the left), and often travel to teach workshops on modern psychometrics, from Botswana to Kazakhstan to Singapore.
Assessment Systems provides comprehensive assessment solutions with a focus on modern psychometrics. Our platforms manage the entire assessment lifecycle: item authoring, customizable review workflow, assembly, online delivery, essay marking, to reporting. These are all imbued with powerful psychometrics, automation, and AI, empowering you to implement best practices. Analyze, design, and score assessments with a variety of IRT models and adaptive testing algorithms. Automatically build test forms and author items. Deliver with live and AI proctoring. Reduce psychometrician and test development costs/timeline.
With ASC, you don’t just digitalize your assessments, you modernize them.
We strive to provide an exciting, challenging, and rewarding work environment. Positions here provide an opportunity for personal growth with a flexible schedule and uniquely empowering culture. While we have been doing computer-based testing since 1979, we have an EdTech start-up feel and focus.
We are headquartered in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, but are fully remote, and believe in hiring the best person, regardless of where they reside.
