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Are you doing enough to protect the integrity of your credentialing program? Discover the most common online exam security threats and learn how to mitigate them with Meazure Learning solutions.

This article describes what “secure test design” means and why it’s important for credentialing programs. It also provides proven techniques for professional testing organizations to maximize security measures during test development processes.

Much like building a house, a blueprint is a fundamental document that supports the integrity and validity of the assessment process. More importantly, a publicly available blueprint is an important element of ensuring fairness for candidates. The development of a valid blueprint involves a true collaboration among industry stakeholders, quantitative analyses and research into assessment best practices. Dr. Chris Beauchamp discusses how these best practices have evolved over the past several years and how to build a blueprint that will set up your assessment program for success.

Allow us to introduce you to the Assessment Life Cycle, an illustration coined by Meazure Learning psychometricians to help simplify and visualize the typical stages of test development. This process is cyclical, not linear. Through this seven-stage method, we demystify the testing process so you can be confident in your exam results, whether you’re a seasoned psychometrician or new to the testing world.

Professional entry-to-practice examinations serve an important gatekeeping and public-protection role in our society. The outcome of such an exam can be life-changing, both for the candidates who take the exam and for the people who will ultimately be served by those candidates (e.g., a nursing candidate and their future patients). In this webinar, Dr. Scott Cassidy will take us “behind the scenes” and explore the science and statistics of examination standard setting.

When it comes to translation and localization, perspective is everything. Over the past several decades, Meazure Learning has translated hundreds of examinations and documents into multiple languages. Most languages have multiple dialects, and each has its own nuances and idiosyncrasies, so what may seem like a straightforward task, can be very complex. Aurélie Lecocq will lead a discussion around the challenges of assessment translation and how to move forward as an industry.

As experienced professionals in the field of professional testing and higher education respectively, Danielle Geddes and Luke Brymer will walk us through the reasons why programs have chosen to add online proctoring in recent years. Some of the major drivers towards online proctoring include reach, convenience, and transparency.

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.