Assessment In The News

Nathan Thompson earned his PhD in Psychometrics from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on computerized adaptive testing. His undergraduate degree was from Luther College with a triple major of Mathematics, Psychology, and Latin. He is primarily interested in the use of AI and software automation to augment and replace the work done by psychometricians, which has provided extensive experience in software design and programming. Dr. Thompson has published over 100 journal articles and conference presentations, but his favorite remains https://scholarworks.umass.edu/pare/vol16/iss1/1/ .
psychometrics-possibilities
Assessment In The NewsPsychometrics

What Should Psychometrics Be Doing?

The Goal: Quality Assessment On March 31, 2017, I read an article in The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist (the journal published by the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology) that really resonated with me: Has Industrial-Organizational Psychology Lost

us govt fedramp fisma
ASC NewsAssessment In The News

Assess.ai Passes Audit for FISMA / FedRAMP

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

Multistage testing algorithm
Adaptive testingAssessment In The News

Adaptive Testing SAT: Intro & Free Practice Test

The adaptive SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) exam was announced in January 2022 by the College Board, with the goal to modernize the test and make it more widely available, migrating the exam from paper-and-pencil to

CalHR-avatar
ASC NewsAssessment In The NewsPsychometrics

CalHR Selects Assessment Systems as Vendor for Personnel Selection

The California Department of Human Resources (CalHR, calhr.ca.gov/) has selected Assessment Systems Corporation (ASC, assess.com) as its vendor for an online assessment platform. CalHR is responsible for the personnel selection and hiring of many job roles for

edtech podcast
ASC NewsAssessment In The News

Learn About Tech Innovation With Dr. Nathan Thompson On The EdNorth EdTech Podcast

Nathan Thompson, Ph.D., was recently invited to talk about ASC and the future of educational assessment on the Ednorth EdTech Podcast. EdNorth is an association dedicated to continuing the long history of innovation in educational