Assessments in Practice

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 This suggests that half of what you learned 5 years ago is obsolete.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by: John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director The COVID-19 crisis is challenging for all organizations.  From remote working to online assessments, many are rapidly adapting by moving their operations online.   Some test publishers and certification bodies have received calls to waive the testing requirements for certification or credentialing programs... Read More