Item Banking
Manage teams to develop high-quality items, leveraging customizable workflow and versioning
Online Essay Marking
Easily mark large volumes of essays or other open-response items, including multi-marker rules
Scalable Delivery
Deliver paper or online tests in large volumes, with dozens of item types and a range of security options
Unmatched Psychometrics
Adaptive testing, multistage testing, item response theory – all the things that a world-class educational assessment needs
Who we work with
Our educational assessment solutions can benefit any organization that needs high-quality assessment, whether it is advanced psychometrics, top-shelf security, or innovative item types. Here are some of the groups we have worked with:
- National ministries of assessment; providing large-scale nationwide assessments
- University admissions; nationwide assessments for both undergraduate and graduate admissions
- University placement exams; testing incoming students to ensure they have necessary skills, and placing them into additional resources if needed
- Large school districts: formative benchmark assessments used as pre/post measurements and also as practice for state summative assessments
- Summative assessments for graduate/professional school
How we improve educational assessment
Powerful psychometrics
Maximize accuracy and efficiency of exams with computerized adaptive testing, multistage testing, item response theory, scaled scoring, automated tech reports… the real stuff.
Summative or Formative Assessments
Customize to any type of assessment, from Grade 3 math quizzes up to national university admissions exams
60+ item types
Improve engagement and fidelity with spoken response, video response, drag and drop, cloze, matrices, and many more.
Item banking
Streamline the development and management of large item banks, with role/content access for your users
Item Review Workflow
Establish a custom workflow for items to move through, ensuring high quality content.
Deliver securely
Protect the integrity of your exam: remote proctoring, examinee passwords, proctor codes, time/date windows, lockdown browser, and more.
Cloud or On-Premise
Our educational assessment platforms can be provided on the cloud (SaaS) or on-premise.
- Assess.ai: Cloud-native application with highly scalable test engine on best-in-class Amazon servers.
- FastTest: Secure platform that can be on the cloud or installed on-premise or on a private cloud in your country
Manage the entire assessment lifecycle
Many educational assessment platforms provide basic functionality for exams. Most of them are quite limited. On addition to delivering exams, true assessment platforms should include item banking, item review workflow, support for Standard Setting studies, test publishing, automated psychometric reporting, and the rest of the educational assessment lifecycle.
Formative or Summative Assessment
High-quality educational assessment platforms can be used for many types of assessment. Our platforms work equally well with formative assessment and summative assessment. Whether you are doing benchmark online exams for students, or high-stakes exams like university admissions or certificate/achievement exams, we have the solution.
Formative assessment refers to assessment as part of the learning process, such as benchmark exams given halfway through a school year to see where a student stands so that instruction can be better directed; the test is not used to make any real decisions such as pass/fail. Summative assessment on the other hand is done at the end of learning, and usually has some sort of decision like pass/fail. However, in many cases, the decision is at an aggregate level and not about the individual student, like state-based exams at the end of 8th grade to see if students are mastering the curriculum, or if the curriculum (or instructional practices) need to be changed.
You control access for your users, and all aspects of how the test is delivered – lockdown browser, proctoring, entry into the exam, time limits, navigation controls, and tons more.
Integrated module for online essay marking
If your educational assessments include essay questions, you need an efficient way to grade them. Our platform includes an integrated module that allows teachers to view the essays (anonymously or non-anonymously), leave marks on customized rubrics, and flag issue/exemplar essays. This will drastically reduce the time and effort needed to grade essays.
