Smarter solutions for secure online assessment
Our online assessment platform, proctoring, and test development services will transform your exams for certification, workforce, and education.
FastTest: Navigate the entire test development cycle – driven by a brandable, embeddable, scalable engine.
Deliver online tests with the security you need
Our powerful online assessment platform simplifies and improves the entire cycle of high-stakes or large-scale exams like Certification or K-12 Benchmark.
- Publish and manage test forms, from few to hundreds
- Make exams more effective with modern psychometrics like IRT and adaptive testing.
- Configure secure online testing, from date windows to watermarks to lockdown.
- Deliver anywhere on the globe: embedded in your platform, unproctored, your locations, online proctoring, proctored test centers.
Powerful authoring to build better item banks, faster
FastTest provides the ideal platform to author items, manage large item banks, and assemble test forms.
- Dozens of item types and formats to assess more effectively
- Drive content quality with configurable item review workflows
- Set defensible cutscores with managed Angoff studies
- Near-endless configurability of roles, tagging, and user access to keep your content secure
- Track item metadata, statistics, and usage to ensure quality results and validity documentation
Start sailing with a trial account or demo from one of our experts
Request a trial account to see just how easy FastTest is to use, while still being packed with powerful functionality like adaptive testing. Not sure where to start? One of our psychometricians or assessment experts can explore your needs and recommend a solution, whether FastTest or one of our partners.
Your guide to stronger assessment: Test Development and Psychometric Experts
Need help developing your test or certification program? Our team of experts will help ensure your online exams meet international standards, including the North Star benchmarks of NCCA, ANSI, and AERA/APA/NCME. We work to understand your organization’s needs and craft a solution that makes business sense for you.
Test Design & Development
Building a strong test is not easy, and you need a guide. We’ll help with job analysis, blueprints, item writing workshops, publishing, QA, and SME management.
Psychometrics & Statistics
Our PhD psychometricians are experts in item and test analysis, equating, standard setting, and test validation. Worldwide leaders in advanced methods like IRT & CAT.
Program Management
Let us handle the day-to-day work so your volunteers don’t have to, from prepping handbooks to scheduling and proctoring online exams.
Certification Accreditation
We’ll help you achieve accreditation for your certification or assessment-based certificate, against international standards like NCCA or ANSI/ISO.
Journeying with organizations that value high-quality assessment
Assessment Systems serves as the trusted guide organizations responsible for online assessments that must be secure, fair, defensible, and scalable over time — including certification bodies, hiring departments, government agencies, and higher-education institutions.
Certification
Navigate the confusing waters of accreditation. Manage SME authoring, deliver securely, and leverage our candidate portal to connect with your profession.
Pre-Employment
Develop and deliver smarter tests, keeping candidates engaged and highlighting those with the best skills and knowledge. Connect with APIs to leverage scores effectively and immediately.
Govt & Licensure
We’ll help you develop sound, defensible tests, manage job families and exam titles, deliver securely online or at your locations, and connect to your systems.
Higher Education
We excel with higher-stakes exams, like admissions or placement. Manage large item banks and hundreds of forms. Use the same adaptive algorithms used by the big international exams!
Assessment Systems partners with the organizations that are modernizing online assessment
FAQ: Online Assessment and Psychometrics
It’s not easy to build and deliver a high-quality exam like a professional certification test or nationwide educational assessment. It requires extensive experience, a team of psychometricians, and software designed specifically to manage best practices like item response theory. New to all this? Here’s some FAQ.
Online assessment platforms are enterprise software systems designed to manage large-scale and high-stakes examinations for organizations that need more than basic MCQ exam software or an LMS. Examples are a civil service selection department that exists to administer pre-employment exams or a certification board that exists to deliver certification exams. The software is designed with advanced functionality necessary for these organizations, including item banking, complex test construction, and modern psychometrics like adaptive testing. They also include modules for examinee management, scheduling, psychometric reports, and proctoring.
Highly secure. We have achieved SOC2 Type 2 security accreditation from an independent third party auditor. Users are provided with specific roles and content-based access. You can turn on additional features like multi-factor authentication. Examinees can be required to have unique one-time passwords, lockdown browser, and activity tracking. You govern time limits, re-take access, time/date window, and much more. Add on live remote proctoring for an additional layer.
Item banking is the process of developing, reviewing, and managing large pools of items. A professionally-managed exam will have a pool of items which are frequently rotated, with needs to track metadata such as statistics. It’s also often required to have a workflow management module to ensure all items are reviewed, and user management with roles and content-based access, such as ensuring Math item writers only see the Math bank and can only write new items.
Item response theory is the modern psychometric paradigm, used for developing, analyzing, and validating most of the large-scale and important assessments in the world. It utilizes a machine learning approach which provides a number of advantages, including more accurate scores, stronger equating (making sure that multiple forms and years are equivalent), and adaptive testing.
Psychometric consulting is the necessary work to develop high-quality exams that meet international standards such as AERA/APA/NCME or NCCA. These require complex studies like Job Task Analysis, standard setting studies like the Angoff method, or machine-learning analytics like item response theory. If you don’t have a psychometrician in-house, you will need to hire consultants. Our team will work to understand your requirements, which can differ based on the type of exam, and recommend a cost-effective plan to achieve your goals
Remote proctoring is a way to ensure the validity and integrity of your test without forcing examinees to drive to a physical testing center. There is actually a range of options pertaining to levels of security, from low-security exams that just record video with AI flagging to high-security exams where the computer is locked down and there are two video streams watched by a live person in real time. ASC partners with a number of providers to tailor a solution to your needs and budget.
Adaptive testing uses IRT to personalize the exam for every student, candidate, or examinee. It typically refers to tests that adapt after every item while multistage testing adapts in blocks of items. This personalized assessment paradigm makes tests more accurate, more engaging, and more secure.
Request a demo from one of our product experts. If your organization is qualified to leverage next-gen online assessment software, we can provide a free trial account as well as pricing. Our consultants can also meet with you to advise on the test development process.
Yes! We frequently work organizations that need a hand in developing high-quality assessments. We focus on high-stakes tests like professional certifications or university admissions, including topics like job analysis, test design, standard setting, statistical analysis, equating, and adaptive testing. We do not work with low-quality assessments like a happiness survey.
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