ASC: Making Testing Smarter Since 1979
Our Mission: To positively impact educational and career opportunities by empowering organizations to make better assessments with AI, real psychometrics, and easy-to-use software.
Our Story
Assessment Systems corporation (ASC) 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 Corporation was hence born; to share this game-changing discovery with the world.
Who We Are
ASC has been a trusted provider of 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 and often travel to teach workshops on modern psychometrics, from Botswana to Kazakhstan to Singapore.
What We Do
ASC 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.
Company Values
We truly care about good assessment, and will do what it takes.
- Integrity – Do right by our clients and by good assessment
- Positivity – Leave our clients with a smile, but also your co-workers
- Learning – Always be expanding your skills. Since we are small, you will need to figure out solutions on your own in some cases.
- Asking – If you have an issue, ask the team. Perhaps someone else has done it in the past or has free time to help.
- Collaboration – We are an agile, flat organization, so collaborate to provide the best service to our clients
Careers at ASC
We strive to provide an exciting, challenging, and rewarding work environment. Positions here provide an opportunity for personal growth with a flexible schedule and a 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.
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