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La version française suit le texte anglais. Yardstick Assessment Strategies (YAS) is excited to announce the release of YAS Exam Integrity Tips Line. As ensuring an honest and fair exam experience for our test takers is crucial to us and our partner organizations for whom we deliver exams, YAS has implemented a tip line to […]

  Yardstick Assessment Strategies (YAS) is excited to introduce you to our newest features: Autocomplete, Visual Confirmation & Venue Time Zone, the perfect tools to improve your experience when creating and/or modifying venues on Measure. We’ve updated three powerful capabilities by rendering them more user friendly and simplistic: Autocomplete – When you are entering an […]

Accomplish more with Measure Image Library Yardstick Assessment Strategies (YAS) developers broke new grounds again! Over the past year, our team has been hard at work researching and building a fantastic new tool for anyone who uses images in their assessments. We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest feature, Yardstick Measure™ Image Library! […]

Former Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Greg Sadesky dives into a favorite topic: automated item generation. Rapid Content Production for Professional Testing When it comes to high-stakes testing and credentialing, the validity of the results depends heavily on the quality of the questions being asked. Those questions need to make sense, cover the subject matter comprehensively, […]

The next instalment in Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Greg Sadesky’s series on virtual and remote proctoring. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Dr. Sadesky unpacks some recent research on the efficacy of remote proctoring versus live proctoring. Paradigm shift After having examined this issue for the past several months, I […]

The next instalment in Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Greg Sadesky’s series on virtual and remote proctoring. It’s time to explore the potential for remote proctoring in the high-stakes testing industry. In this latest instalment in the blog series on virtual proctoring and its appropriateness for use in high-stakes testing (Part 1), I spoke with Mickie […]

Yardstick’s Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Greg Sadesky sat down with Isabelle Gonthier from the National Commission of Certifying Agencies to discuss virtual proctoring. Weighing the benefits and limitations of virtual proctoring. In a recent article, I outlined the virtues of virtual proctoring, mostly from the perspective of high-stakes testing. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) […]

Understanding your post-administration exam reports Have you ever wondered about the types of exam administration reports that Measure generates? Yes, there is more than one. You can retrieve an “Exam History”, “Exam Responses” and/or an “Exam Notes” report after each exam administration. Each of these reports serve different purposes. Here’s a quick snapshot of each of them, […]

Following an exam administration, Yardstick often produces an Item Analysis report from their proprietary software called COGs. The item analysis report provides information about each item in terms of its difficulty, discrimination, and the distribution of responses across alternatives. Our Senior Psychometrician Dr. Michaela Geddes, PhD. has written a handy backgrounder that focuses on a […]

Using Yardstick Measure™ to bank platform with robust reporting functionality Many of us at Yardstick use reports generated by Measure daily, for both item banking and exam scoring purposes. All reports can be found under “Reports” tab on the dashboard. What I like the most about the reports in Measure is that they give me access […]