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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 This suggests that half of what you learned 5 years ago is obsolete.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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Evidence-based Training Methods: Book Review

Posted on January 13, 2021 (January 15, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director How best should you conduct training and e-learning? This review, one of a series on the Questionmark site by Questionmark founder, John Kleeman, looks at the book “Evidence-based training methods” by Ruth Colvin Clark. I’ve heard good things about this book, but... Read More

Best Practice Compliance ISO 10667

Did you know there was an ISO standard for testing and assessment?

Posted on January 4, 2021 (July 21, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder and Executive Director A lot of people, even those deeply involved in the assessment world, don’t know about it, but there is a well-respected, ISO standard on testing and assessment in the workplace, ISO 10667, updated in the last few months. If you use assessments... Read More

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Best Practices for Adapting and Translating Computerized Tests and Exams in the 21st Century

Posted on December 1, 2020 (December 1, 2020) by Questionmark under Videos

It takes more than a good translation provider to ensure that an assessment can reliably measure cognitive and non-cognitive skills across languages and cultures. Yet, while most sophisticated testing environments support multiple languages, they often fail to enable workflows that harness the power of translation technology.In this video, presenters, Kristin... Read More

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How SAP has digitally transformed their Certification program

Posted on November 17, 2020 (July 22, 2021) by Questionmark under Videos

Questionmark executive director John Kleeman talks to Daniela Kelemen, head of digital learning operations and support at SAP, about how we helped SAP to deliver online certification programs, update them regularly and drive commercial success.Deploying assessments to the cloud has sped up the speed of production, made it easier to... 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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Five key privacy considerations for testing and assessments

Posted on October 14, 2020 (November 17, 2020) by Jamie Armstrong under Articles

Posted by Jamie Armstrong, Group Legal Counsel Questionmark’s Group Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer, Jamie Armstrong, was recently made a Fellow of Information Privacy by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jamie is a US and UK qualified lawyer and holds IAPP CIPP/E/US/C and CIPM credentials. In this... Read More

Assessment Content Best Practice Recruitment

Measuring cognitive ability is the key to hiring tomorrow’s leaders

Posted on July 20, 2020 (July 20, 2021) by Paula Baciu under Articles

Posted by Paula Baciu, Content Executive There is no doubt that 2020 had many surprises prepared for the recruitment sector. The fact that unemployment rates and financial constraints are higher than the living memory has known is no news anymore. Additionally, the BLM movement adds further pressure on employers to... Read More

Best Practice Online Proctoring Privacy Proctoring

Can you have security AND privacy when conducting online proctoring?

Posted on June 24, 2020 (July 16, 2021) by John Kleeman under Articles

Posted by John Kleeman, Founder Covid-19 has seen a dash to test people at home. Universities who used to test students on campus are testing them remotely. Companies who used to give face to face training are now training and testing at a distance. And awarding bodies are delivering exams... 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