Assessment solutions that drive learning, hiring, and credentialing
Develop better tests, faster. Transform your exams with a complete online testing platform: item banking, delivery, proctoring, APIs, & candidate portal. Drive quality with expert psychometrics and test development services.
FastTest: the end-to-end online testing platform built around security, scalability, and psychometric science
FastTest drives the entire cycle of high-stakes or large-scale exams like Certification or nationwide educational assessment. It is specifically designed for organizations that need more that just an MCQ test.
- Publish better tests, faster, including IRT, LOFT, CAT, and MST
- Flexible scheduling, location management, reporting, APIs
- Configure security: windows to watermarks to lockdown
- Build a brand with a white-label and embeddable engine
- Unproctored, your locations, online proctoring, 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.
- Reduce bottlenecks with SMEs
- Assess deeper with dozens of item types
- Track metadata and versions for validity
- Manage Angoff studies
- Keep content secure: roles, tags, MFA, SOC2
Candidate portal & certification management
Our candidate portal Credicycle makes it easy for you to publish exams for distribution. Candidates create a profile, fill out applications, purchase exams, launch their test, receive certificates and digital badges, and track renewals. You have access to all reports and accounting, plus the option to manage locations/institutions.
Improve candidate experience
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.
Test Dev Services
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.
Stronger Psychometrics
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.
Manage Programs
Certification Accreditation
We’ll help you achieve accreditation for your certification or assessment-based certificate, against international standards like NCCA or ANSI/ISO.
Achieve AccreditationJourneying with organizations that can’t afford to fail
Assessment Systems serves as the trusted guide to organizations responsible for online assessments that must be fair, defensible, and scalable. Whether high-stakes, high-volume, or stronger psychometrics, we partner with those who need more than just a basic exam platform: certification bodies, pre-employment programs, government civil service, and educational institutions.
Certification & Licensure
Your program deserves more than an LMS quiz module. Our certification exam platform will drive rigorous psychometric standards, secure delivery, and branded candidate portal to grow your profession. Our experts navigate the confusing waters of NCCA/ANAB accreditation.
Workforce & Employment
Civil service selection, skills testing, and competency validation. Manage examinee pipelines, scheduling, delivery, and reporting from a single platform. Connect APIs to leverage scores effectively and immediately. Deliver securely.
K-12 & Higher Education
Build & deliver at scale: benchmark assessments, placement/admissions testing, and summative exams. Deliver smarter tests with adaptive and multistage algorithms. Access insightful reporting to transform learning. Embed our engine to build your brand.
FAQ: Getting started with our secure online testing platform
It’s not easy to build and deliver a high-quality exam like a professional certification test or nationwide educational assessment. We can guide you every step of the way.
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, security layers, and modern psychometrics like adaptive testing. They also include modules for examinee management, scheduling, psychometric reports, and proctoring. Anyone can build an MCQ quiz engine; there are only a handful of professional-grade enterprise assessment platforms like FastTest.
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.
Yes, our platform is built with a modern API architecture. We have established specific APIs such as registering candidates and sending scores. You can embed our tests in your fully branded platform. You can also set up SSO.
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.
