Summative and formative assessment are a crucial component of the educational process. If you work in the educational assessment field or even in educational generally, you have probably encountered these terms. What do they mean? This post will explore the differences between summative and formative assessment. Assessment plays a crucial role in education, serving as […]
ASC is proud to announce that we have successfully passed an audit for FISMA / FedRAMP Moderate, demonstrating our extremely high security standards for our online assessment platform! FISMA and FedRAMP are both security protocols that are required to provide cloud-based software to the United States government, based on the National Institute of Standards and […]
An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE Exam) is an assessment designed to measure performance of tasks, typically medical, in a high-fidelity way. It is more a test of skill than knowledge. For example, I used to work at a certification board for ophthalmic assistants; there were 3 levels, and the top two levels included both a […]
AI remote proctoring has seen an incredible increase of usage during the COVID pandemic. ASC works with a very wide range of clients, with a wide range of remote proctoring needs, and therefore we partner with a range of remote proctoring vendors that match to our clients’ needs, and in some cases bring on a […]
Test score reliability and validity are core concepts in the field of psychometrics and assessment. Both of them refer to the quality of a test, the scores it produces, and how we use those scores. Because test scores are often used for very important purposes with high stakes, it is of course paramount that the […]
NCCA accreditation is a stamp of approval on the quality of a certification program, governed by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).™ This is part of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence™, the leader in the world of professional credentialing. NCCA accreditation tells your certificants – and all stakeholders in your profession, including customers/patients – […]
The Beuk Compromise or Beuk Adjustment is a method for a “reality check” on the results of a modified-Angoff standard setting study. It is well-known that experts will often overestimate examinee capabilities and choose a cutscore that is too high – in some cases, so high that even the experts themselves would fail the exam! […]
The adaptive SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) exam announced in January 2022 by the College Board to modernize the test and make it more widely availably, migrating the exam from paper-and-pencil to computerized delivery. Moreover, it would make the tests “adaptive.” But what does it mean to have an adaptive SAT? How does adaptive testing work, […]
One of the primary goals of psychometrics and assessment research is to ensure that tests, their scores, and interpretations of the scores, are reliable, valid, and fair. The concepts of reliability and validity are discussed quite often and are well-defined, but what do we mean when we say that a test is fair or unfair? […]
In the field of psychometric forensics, examinee collusion refers to cases where an examinee takes a test with some sort of external help in obtaining the correct answers. There are several possibilities: Low ability examinees copy off a high ability examinee (known as the Source); could be unbeknownst to the source. Examinees work together and […]
