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) […]

The Assessment Life Cycle™ is a way of organizing the assessment development process into a series of easy-to-understand stages. It provides a strong foundation of knowledge to effectively plan how to ensure the defensibility of your testing program. This webinar will walk you through these steps and show you how Meazure Learning (formerly Yardstick) psychometricians design, plan, and implement sound, defensible high-stakes assessments.

Interpreting psychometric information presented in item analysis reports can be daunting. This webinar will provide an overview of the basic theory of item analysis and review specific examples of items that meet or fail to meet statistical standards.

One challenge for test administrators is determining what a final blueprint should comprise and what steps should be taken to create one. This webinar will describe the essential components of a blueprint along with practical advice for implementation to help ensure your blueprint aligns to and supports your unique exam context and objectives.