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7 Components of a Smooth Testing Journey

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Categories: Blog Articles

Explore the seven key components of a smooth candidate journey in professional credentialing. Learn how to enhance your candidates’ experience and satisfaction with this thought-provoking article.

It’s Far Better to Prevent Cheating Rather Than Punish

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Categories: Blog Articles

The article, authored by Jarrod Morgan, covers incidences of misconduct that proctors were able to prevent and the little-known related truth about exam security and test proctoring — test observers don’t want to catch and punish cheating, they prefer to prevent it.

Exam Blueprinting: What Do Candidates REALLY Need to Know?

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Categories: Webinars

Much like building a house, a blueprint is a fundamental document that supports the integrity and validity of the assessment process. More importantly, a publicly available blueprint is an important element of ensuring fairness for candidates. The development of a valid blueprint involves a true collaboration among industry stakeholders, quantitative analyses and research into assessment best practices. Dr. Chris Beauchamp discusses how these best practices have evolved over the past several years and how to build a blueprint that will set up your assessment program for success.

The Assessment Life Cycle

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Categories: Reports & Guides

Allow us to introduce you to the Assessment Life Cycle, an illustration coined by Meazure Learning psychometricians to help simplify and visualize the typical stages of test development. This process is cyclical, not linear. Through this seven-stage method, we demystify the testing process so you can be confident in your exam results, whether you’re a seasoned psychometrician or new to the testing world.

Assessment Life Cycle Stage 3: Assembling Your Examination Forms

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Stage 3 of the Assessment Life Cycle is where exam developers take the items that were written and banked in Stage 2 and compile them to into one (or more) examination forms. This may sound fairly easy; indeed, sometimes examination assembly is just a matter of finding the right items to assess the required subject areas. However, assembling a valid and well-balanced examination form from an item bank is a careful process, and one that requires meticulous effort. This is especially true when creating licensure or certification examinations, or other high-stakes assessments. This white paper explores many of the considerations when undertaking this process.