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Ensuring Business Continuity: Do You Have a Testing Backup Plan?

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Categories: Webinars

Exam delivery interrupters are not only inconvenient, but more common than you may think and have the potential to negatively impact your program. Ensuring that your business has a contingency plan in place will help in the instance of a worst-case scenario. In this webinar, Gabriell Darby will shed some light on what we have learned over the pandemic and provide you with best practices on how to plan and respond in a worst-case scenario.

Remote Education 2.0

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Categories: Reports & Guides

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities across the world were forced to pivot to remote education. This hasty transition resulted in many ad hoc and make-do teaching and assessment plans that were never designed for long-term use. As the pandemic continues to disrupt traditional higher education, administrators and faculty need sustainable methods to remotely teach and assess students. Jeffrey Selingo and Karin Fischer, two well-respected writers in the field of higher education, collaborated on this white paper addressing three key questions regarding online proctoring.

The Remote Fall: Assessing Test-Takers in Higher Education’s New Normal

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Categories: Webinars

Hosted by Jeffery Selingo with a panel of industry experts, this webinar examines how COVID-19 has prompted campuses to rethink online assessment and the move to online proctoring. The panel discusses the importance of a secure long-term solution with proven test-taker success and measurable value.

Facilitation in the Age of COVID-19: Making the Most of your Online Client Sessions

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Categories: Blog Articles

COVID-19 has forced many licensure and certification organizations to re-examine the ways in which they approach exam development and consider swapping in-person exercises for online meetings. If current projections around the curve of the virus hold, online sessions may become the norm in organizational life for some time to come. In some ways, this move […]

MLPAO Now Offering MLA/T Exam Online

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Categories: Press Releases

TORONTO, Ont. (April 23, 2020) Yardstick Assessment Strategies is pleased to announce they have entered into an agreement with The Medical Laboratory Professionals Association of Ontario to provide the Medical Laboratory Assistant/Technician (MLA/T) exam online using live proctoring, starting August 2020. “We are excited about this partnership,” says Michelle Hoad, CEO of the MLPAO. “Yardstick […]