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Public Examinations Examined: Book Review

Posted on April 26, 2021 by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director Almost every country in the world uses public examinations in its education and admissions systems. This well-informed book examines the international use of such tests and exams. They say that an unexamined life is not worth living. Perhaps a corollary is that... Read More

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How do we assess skills of the future? Five ideas

Posted on March 17, 2021 (March 19, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Executive Director and Founder There is a famous quote from a few years back: "The half-life a learned skill is 5-years". This suggests that half of what you learned 5 years ago is obsolete. I suspect that in fact skills are currently changing faster with technology... Read More

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China’s Examination Hell: Book Review

Posted on March 2, 2021 (March 2, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director When did exams as we know them start? Often, we tend to think of the genesis of modern testing as being the use of multiple-choice questions by the U.S. Army during the First World War. There were exams of various kinds in... Read More

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Anonymous audit tests – an effective way to measure skills

Posted on February 11, 2021 (February 11, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director As part of my “Unlocking the Potential of Assessments” podcast series, I recently interviewed Bernt Nilsen who is CEO of Norsk Test, a Norwegian testing company (you can listen to the podcast here). During the podcast, he mentioned an interesting use of... Read More

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Questionmark and Workday Learning – Accelerating together

Posted on January 28, 2021 (July 30, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director When a company needs to conduct compliance testing, check the readiness of its customer facing teams or channel, or conduct internal certifications, it often uses an assessment system like Questionmark together with its corporate LMS. The LMS orchestrates who needs to take... Read More

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Criterion-Referenced Test Development: Book Review

Posted on November 17, 2020 (December 1, 2020) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director This is the second in a series of Questionmark book review blogs. Our first review was about Eric Shepherd and Joan Phaup’s book, “Talent Transformation” about how assessments help make people decisions. This review steps back a little in time and looks... Read More

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Six things I learned at the ATP Global Virtual Conference last week

Posted on September 23, 2020 (February 18, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director The Association of Test Publishers (ATP) has several conferences and face-to-face meetings each year, including in the US, Europe and India. This year, due to Covid-19, these were replaced with a single virtual, global conference, which happened last week. The conference was... Read More

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Online or test center proctoring: Which is more secure? A 2020 view.

Posted on June 15, 2020 (July 22, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by: John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director Back in 2015, when online proctoring was starting to get widely used, I wrote a couple of articles on the Questionmark blog: Online or test center proctoring: Which is best?Online or test center proctoring: Which is more secure? With the current rapid... Read More

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Making a smooth transition to remote online assessments

Posted on June 1, 2020 (November 17, 2020) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by: John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director The lockdown has caused a big rise in online testing as face-to-face training has not been possible. Companies and training outfits are moving from face-to-face training to online training and need post-course tests. Universities and colleges are giving exams to students at... Read More

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Measure knowledge, skills and abilities before, during and after learning

Posted on May 26, 2020 (July 26, 2021) by Kristin Bernor under Articles

Posted by Kristin Bernor, Head of External Relations Did they learn it? Do they know it? Can they do it? What can we learn from assessments? Well-crafted assessments that measure knowledge, skills and abilities help you answer these questions and much more: tests, quizzes and exams provide valuable data for evaluating (and documenting)... Read More