Measured Success™ Custom Solutions
Overview
Description
Benefits
Using Measured Success, certification organizations can easily and effectively transition paper and pencil assessments and in-person workshops online, including item writing, test creation, and test review. These high-stakes examinations can be delivered in secure test centers located throughout the United States, and certification organizations can access their examinee test scores 24/7 with no need to "wait" for a transfer file.
Measured Success is a robust item-authoring, test development and exam delivery platform. The application can be securely accessed 24/7 from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Measured Success features allow you to author and manage items; create assessments; deliver different types of exams (simulation, essays, short response and multiple-choice test), receive immediate scores; store candidate information; manage and deliver training materials, bulletins and other documentation; and much more.
Measured Success also contains a comprehensive set of features for assembling and delivering your tests. Not only do we offer an item authoring & item banking tool, but a platform upon which tests can be delivered, scored, and reported. Since tests are delivered online, they can be accessed via any third party provider if a proctored environment is required. Avoid the hassle of downloading items, downloading tests, sending them to multiple third party vendors to import into their unique systems and then deliver in yet another application. Instead, any vendor with access to the internet can deliver your tests built in Measured Success. More than that, with our solution you are now poised to expand delivery globally. Your tests can be securely delivered in any corporate office, conference (event testing), chapters, computer lab, community college, university and the like.
Measured Success also contains a comprehensive set of features for assembling and delivering your tests. Not only do we offer an item authoring & item banking tool, but a platform upon which tests can be delivered, scored, and reported. Since tests are delivered online, they can be accessed via any third party provider if a proctored environment is required. Avoid the hassle of downloading items, downloading tests, sending them to multiple third party vendors to import into their unique systems and then deliver in yet another application. Instead, any vendor with access to the internet can deliver your tests built in Measured Success. More than that, with our solution you are now poised to expand delivery globally. Your tests can be securely delivered in any corporate office, conference (event testing), chapters, computer lab, community college, university and the like.
- Web-based question and assessment authoring
- Web-based question banking by learning objective
- Web-based exam delivery
- Role-based security for multi-author environments
- Virtual Library - Instant feedback to enhance learning
- Secure delivery for high-stakes exams
- On-demand results, customizable reports and item analysis
- Comprehensive customer service and technical support
Practice Tests
Overview
Description
Benefits
Practice tests help candidates prepare for their high-stakes exams by reducing test anxiety, informing candidates of their strengths and weaknesses, and allowing candidates to get a "feel" for the actual test. Designed by test development experts, our online practice tests simulate the high-stakes McCann entry-level firefighter and police tests. Candidates receive total and content specific test scores immediately and can hone in on areas of weakness prior to the high-stakes test.
Practice tests are delivered online and are accessible anywhere, anytime. The content was developed in conjunction with industry experts to ensure validity. These practice tests are of comparable length and content found on the actual proctored exams to better prepare candidates. Immediate score reports and feedback on specific strengths and weaknesses are provided upon completion of the test.
- Available anywhere, anytime, even in the comforts of your home
- Realistic feel for the high-stakes test with a timer to ensure candidates pace themselves appropriately
- Detailed score report to highlight strengths and weaknesses and refine for candidates specific areas where additional study is recommended
- Familiarity with exam question types, exam content, and exam difficulty
- Reduces test anxiety and stress
- Improves candidate confidence
Job Analysis Services
Overview
Description
Benefits
Are your job responsibilities the same now as they were five years ago? Job Analysis is the process of identifying in specific detail job duties and requirements and their relative importance to a job. Job analysis is an integral part of test construction and validation and it provides evidence of content validity. Content validity shows that the behavior(s) demonstrated in the selection procedure are a representative sample of the behavior(s) of the job in question or that the selection procedure provides a representative sample of the work product of the job.
In a job analysis, the content of a job is analyzed, matched and compared, (function by function) to the abilities measured by a test.
- Improves employee selection, advancement, and retention procedures
- Reduction in overtime and turnover
- Increase in productivity
- Identifies training required for specific work-related skills
- Builds more cohesive teams
- Ensures content validity of test
- Ensures that successful performance on the test correlates to successful performance on the job
Item Writing Workshops
Overview
Description
Benefits
Ensure the highest quality in the development of your certification tests. Workshops allow items to be carefully developed, researched and reviewed prior to use. Attendees should include subject matter experts from the practitioner population.
An Item Writing Workshop includes,
An Item Writing Workshop includes,
- An explanation of the concept of state standards and standards-based item writing.
- Guidelines for proper multiple-choice item writing.
Item Writing Workshops consist of an item writing orientation, practice writing and critiquing of items, followed by content and psychometric feedback. Item writers are able to learn the basic skills of item writing and generate items in an assigned area from test specifications. These workshops can be conducted in-person or virtually.
Item Writing Workshops ensure the highest quality in the development of the final product. By carefully reviewing items prior to test development, issues such as item discrimination can be avoided.
IntelliMetric® and E-Write IntelliMetric Within™
Overview
Description
Benefits
Are you tired of making your candidates wait weeks to get results on hand-scored essay tests? Have you wished there was technology available that accurately and consistently scored open-ended and constructed response assessment questions? We have what you've been waiting for.
IntelliMetric® is an automated essay scoring technology that relies on artificial intelligence to emulate the process carried out by human scorers. The first commercially successful tool able to administer open-ended questions and provide immediate feedback to candidates, IntelliMetric achieves levels of scoring accuracy that equal or exceed expert graders. E-Write IntelliMetric Within™ is the implementation of IntelliMetric within a client application and in conjunction with an Application Programming Interface (API) provided by McCann Associates. Client organizations are able to incorporate powerful and accurate automated essay scoring technology within their own application, enhancing the value to the client.
- Scores both short answer and extended response questions
- Web-based tools for access anytime, anywhere
- Scoring capability in more than 20 different languages
- Detects non-legitimate essays
- Immediate feedback eliminates scoring delays
iSEEK Supercruncher™
Overview
Description
Benefits
iSEEK Supercruncher™ , finally, a discovery and reporting system that empowers you to make sense of your data. It's the perfect solution, hands down, to manage your item banks, item statistics, tests, and results. It truly is a psychometrician's and test developer's dream come true.
iSEEK Supercruncher™ empowers you to easily cull, search, retrieve and discover data from disparate sources; run, save, share and export any report, any time, on any amount of data; and simply stated, make sense of your data. Now you control your data, instead of your data controlling you.
- Quickly identify the specific gaps in your item bank and hone your item writing resources to address those gaps (plus, use our online authoring tool to create items decentralized from the comforts of your SME's homes)
- With one click, find items tagged for review and distribute them to SMEs to review, revise or remove
- Within seconds, find valid items from which to draw upon to create your next set of exams by excluding items based on any criteria you define (DIF, IRT, exposure and other criteria)
- At a glance, view all items, properties, authors, creation date, passages, graphics, key, item statistics - whether this data resides in one data location or several
- Discover items with a specific P+ range, rbis range, and exposure rate
- Reporting capabilities are limitless! For the first time, you have access to view your data anyway you want to.
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