BRIDGING THE GAP OF TECHNOLOGICAL READINESS Programs Without Existing Exam Delivery Platforms Test Providers with Unintegrated Exam Systems Test-Takers Who Needed Technical Support Series Conclusion

Handling Increased Demand While Maintaining Our High Standard of Quality Platform Performance New Client Onboarding  Test-Taker Experience Lessons Learned 

This three-part series will address how Meazure Learning (including both ProctorU and Yardstick brands) navigated and continues to manage the impacts of COVID-19 on our remote proctoring services (sometimes referred to as invigilation services). By the end of January 2020, it became clear that COVID-19 was going to have a huge impact on many industries—including the testing industry….

If you’re moving exams to an online format (or still adjusting) this discussion is for you! ProctorU’s service lines offer you flexibility through different levels of security, administrator involvement, and insights. We’ll show you how each service line works and their use cases, so you can be confident that your exam stakes align with your security needs….

Practice exams play an important role when ensuring test-takers have the appropriate information and preparation tools for your credentialing program. Richard Spence, a Yardstick Sales Manager and ten-year veteran of the industry, walks us through examples of how even programs with limited resources can build excellent preparatory materials.

Communicating to candidates takes a Swiss cheese approach. That means using multiple layers and tactics to reach exam candidates since no one tactic can reach them all. Sheena Bateman discusses the many ways an exam program can communicate with its candidates to get the best possible coverage.

At this point, your exam has been administered to test-takers. Based on the pattern of test-taker responses, each item has been reviewed to ensure that it meets psychometric standards. And from this analysis, you now have a well-vetted and validated set of test-taker exam scores. What’s left to do now? This white paper explores many of the considerations when undertaking this stage in the exam development life cycle.

At this stage, it is important to revisit the now-vetted set of exam items and calculate test-takers’ final exam scores efficiently and accurately. Stage 6 of the Assessment Life Cycle involves calculating test-takers’ scores on the exam they completed and generating reports that will communicate these results in the clearest and most valid manner possible. The purpose of this white paper is to explain the process of generating final test-taker scores and reports and to explore the considerations that go into designing and disseminating various score reports that meet each client’s unique needs.

At this stage of the cycle, the exam has been written and you are sitting on a pile of test-taker response data. But your work is not over quite yet. Stage 5 of the Assessment Life Cycle involves analyzing test-takers’ responses and looking for patterns to evaluate whether the items in your exam have indeed created a valid assessment. This white paper explores many of the considerations when undertaking this process.

Exam administration is careful work; a good deal of planning goes into ensuring it is handled correctly. The central concern at this point in the Assessment Life Cycle is making sure that your examination is administered under the proper testing conditions, and that sensitive data is handled appropriately. If done correctly, the tasks of Stage 4 ensure that your examination will be administered in a way that respects the stakes (or ‘seriousness’) of the exam and supports the validity and defensibility of your assessment program. This white paper explores many of the considerations when undertaking this process.