Innovative Technologies

Posted by John Kleeman Where is the world of compliance training, learning and assessment going? I’ve collaborated recently with two SAP experts, Thomas Jenewein of SAP and Simone Buchwald of EPI-USE, to write a white paper on “How to do it right – Learning, Training and Assessments in Regulatory Compliance”... Read More

Posted by Jim Farrell If you are a Questionmark customer and aren’t using Questionmark Live, what are you waiting for? More than 2000 of our customers have started using Questionmark Live this year, so I think now is a good time to call out some of the features that are... Read More

Posted by Austin Fossey Once we have defined the purpose of the assessment, completed our domain analysis, and finalized a test blueprint, we might be eager to jump right in to item writing, but there is one important step to take before we begin: training! Unless you are writing the entire... Read More

Posted by Austin Fossey We are back from the first South African Users Conference which was hosted by Bytes People Solutions. Like all of our users conferences, the most valuable aspect of this gathering was hearing from our customers and potential customers—through presentations as well as informal conversations. Many attendees manage... Read More

Posted by Austin Fossey In large-scale assessment, a significant amount of work goes into writing items before a participant ever sees them. Items are drafted, edited, reviewed for accuracy, checked for bias, and usually rewritten several times before they are ready to be deployed. Despite all this work, a true test... Read More

Posted by Chloe Mendonca The security of test results is crucial to the validity of test scores. Check out 9 tips to prevent cheating and ensure test security in the  infographic below. If you’d like more details about these and other tips on ensuring the security and defensibility of your assessments... Read More

Posted by Julie Delazyn The Aurelius Group (TAG) provides Federal acquisition, human capital, and technology consulting to private industry, federal agencies, and the U.S. Department of Defense. One of their clients is a large Federal agency that, faced with an expanding workload, inexperienced employees and increasingly scarce resources, needed to... Read More

Posted by Austin Fossey In my previous post, I talked about how the Job Task Analysis (JTA) Summary Report can be used by subject matter experts (SMEs) to inform their decisions about what content to include in an assessment. In many JTA studies, we might survey multiple populations of stakeholders who... Read More

Posted by Austin Fossey We will wrap up our discussion of themes at the National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME) annual meeting with an overview of the inescapable discussion about working with complex -- and often messy-- data sets. It was clear from many of the presentations and poster sessions... Read More

Posted by Jim Farrell The gold standard of testing is to have valid test results. You must always be asking yourself: Does this test really test what it is supposed to test? Are the topics covered going to tell me whether or not the participant has the knowledge or skills... Read More