Measured Success™ College Readiness

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Benefits
The Measured Success™ College Readiness programs are designed to help students prepare for college. Aligned to the Achieve ADP Benchmarks, programs in math, reading and writing can help all students identify strengths and weaknesses and learn what's needed for college success. An ELL series provides non-native speakers the opportunity to examine their abilities in listening, grammar, reading and writing. Additionally, our performance-based computer skills package offers life-like simulation tests as a means to measure computer proficiency. Whether you are a high school student, college student or university administrator, there's a Measured Success™College Readiness package that's right for you!

College Readiness Math

Challenge your students with a series of five math assessments, containing 20 items each, in the following disciplines:
  • Number Sense
  • Algebra I
  • Algebra II
  • Geometry
  • Data Analysis and Interpretation

College Readiness Reading

Complete with five assessments that each contain 20 items and are aligned to the Achieve ADP benchmarks, the College Readiness Reading package measured student competencies in:
  • Research Skills & Logical Reasoning
  • Vocabulary & Language Use
  • Literature
  • Communications
  • Information Text & Media

College Readiness Writing

When it comes to evaluating writing, there is no better automated scoring solution than IntelliMetric®.The writing package includes:
  • Writing Skills Multiple-Choice
  • Literary Essay
  • Informative Essay
  • Narrative Essay
  • Persuasive Essay

Computer Skills

Are you looking to evaluate and improve your computer skills? Look no further! Our computer skills package challenges test takers with performance-based assessments in word processing, Windows and general knowledge. Complete the series and obtain your personalized Certificate of Completion.

CompuPlacer™* Basic Package:

  • Word Processing Basics
  • Windows Basics
  • General Computer Knowledge

CompuPlacer™ Full Series:

    Word Processing Windows General Knowledge Presentations Internet and Email Database Spreadsheets

With Measured Success College Readiness, students and administrators receive immediate diagnostics on specific strengths and weakness . . . and that's not all:

View your results within seconds of completing the tests and track your performance over time.

Receive item level details, replay the test, and view the ADP benchmark for each item.

Use iSEEK™ to return helpful information directly related to the content covered on each test question.

Complete any course and receive your personalized Certificate of Completion.

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Measured Success™ Custom Solutions

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Measured Success empowers you to add your own content, easily and effectively. Create and deliver placement tests, admissions tests, quizzes, mid-terms, final exams, diagnostic tests and much more. Author items in any language. Deliver multiple choice, short answer, essays, survey items, and additional item types. Control test delivery features including timers, random item delivery, adaptive and linear models, bundling multiple tests and testlets, and score report details. Inform students and administrators, immediately, on particular strengths and weaknesses . . . down to item level details. Instantaneously provide remediation materials.
Creating and administering your own tests has never been this easy. Everything is at your fingertips! Measured Success™ has eight main, easy to use, components that address virtually any and all needs to create, deliver, score and report your custom-created assessments online. This innovative, advanced software solution is available anywhere, anytime, throughout the world, so long as an internet connection is available.

  • Item Authoring - Access the easy-to-use item authoring tool to create and organize multiple choice, short answer, open-ended and survey test questions. Our flexible item authoring tool allows you to create an item 'bank' structure that best meets your needs by organizing items into your uniquely named content categories, knowledge areas, skills, and abilities. Additional item authoring features include:
    • Mark items "draft" or "approved"
    • Document the reference for the item
    • Tag the item with "key words"
    • Link items to a passage
    • Insert graphics, charts, and images
    • An easy to use word processing interface
    • Copy and paste items into the tool from another source (a nice feature if you already have your items electronically available)
    • Align 'shared' items to multiple item banks
    • Edit, move, and delete items
You may access the item authoring tool directly or, alternatively, McCann can enter your items for you.

  • Test Creation - Use the test creator to prepare tests for a variety of uses, from high-stakes, to certification, practice, placement, admissions, remediation or training.
    • Create your own, unique test name
    • Insert your own, customized test directions
    • Mark high-stakes tests 'secure' for delivery in VanGuard, our secure browser that locks down the desktop and prevents the candidate from copying, pasting, printing, surfing the net, chatting or basically doing anything other than take the test.
    • Create an unlimited number of tests
Depending on your level of interest in managing and controlling your program, you can access the test creation tool directly, online at any time, or, alternatively McCann can create assessments for you in accordance with your program specifications.

  • Test Delivery - Deliver tests securely online, anytime, anywhere so long as an internet connection is available. Toggle on and off various delivery options including
    • Fixed or randomized delivery of items within a test
    • Apply a timer and show time ticking "up" or "down"
    • Apply a warning message when time is nearly up, and customize your warning message
    • Set controls to allow (or not) candidates to omit items
    • Set controls to allow (or not) candidates to 'skip' around the test and revisit (or not) previously answered questions
    • Set test windows (or not) to limit the availability of tests to a certain date range
    • Allow (or not) candidates to stop the test and finish later
    • Set the number of times a candidate may take the test
  • Scoring - Receive immediate, reliable scores. Score features include:
    • Immediate scores for multiple choice, short answer and essay items
    • Intellimetric® scoring for essay items
    • Virtual hand-scoring tools to empower your SMEs to score essays online
    • Ability to weight items
    • Ability to set a cut scores
  • Reporting- Immediate access to individual reports, group performance reports and item analysis reports with flexibility to:
    • Determine whether candidates can view their score report immediately upon finishing the test
    • Allow candidates to view total score and domain/content scores only; or allow candidates ability to review their test details, and see each item answered correctly and incorrectly
    • Create your own customized "passing" and "failing" messages, which appear on the candidates dashboard
    • Create separate customized "passing" and "failing" messages, which appear on the candidates score report
    • Insert your organization "passing" certificate for immediate delivery to passing candidates
    • Insert your organization's certificate of "completion" to all candidates completing training assessments
    • As the administrator, view at any time all tests completed, in progress and not yet started
    • 24/7 access to individual reports and group reports; with ability to run item analyses
    • Create custom report views based on any data field (see data module below) created
    • Export data on-demand from any report
  • Resources and iSEEK™ remediation - Use the resource center to add training documents, remediation resources, best practices, lesson plans, exercises, powerpoints, and virtually any document or URL reference. The resource center, combined with our iSEEK™ target discovery software, allows you to:
    • Add resources into Measured Success™ and make them available to your candidates
    • Tag resources to test scores to allow candidates to immediately begin remediation
    • Use our iSEEK™ discovery tool to search your resources and/or the web to retrieve germane information related to content covered on the test and specific test questions
  • Data Management - Collect and manage your data easily:
    • Add virtually any type of data including text fields, pick lists, date fields, numeric fields and a check box
    • With your custom data fields, collect various information on your candidate base such as certification date, current employment status, highest level of education and anything else
    • Add custom data to your custom reports and/or to the individual score report
    • Sort reports based on your custom data fields
  • Account Management - Create unlimited candidate accounts either individually or through batch import.
  • Easy to use, innovative online tools to effectively and efficiently manage all of your testing, training, learning and remediation needs
  • Reduce costs and time involved with grading essays
  • Improve placement testing processes by delivering your content, written by your experts, and deemed appropriate by your administration to accurately and reliably place incoming freshman into your courses
  • Expedite admissions processing by reliably scoring admissions essay online
  • Reduce remediation expenses by providing tools to students to learn core concepts required for college success
  • Send and receive class assignments by effectively using the virtual library
  • Enhance overall student learning experience
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College Success™

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Description
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College Success's computer adaptive testing is delivered via the internet Software as a Service (SaaS) and used to assess the knowledge and skills of incoming college students to institutions of higher education. Tests within College Success are designed to diagnose students' strengths and weaknesses and help colleges and universities make appropriate course placement decisions for students. College Success is designed to provide placement advice and guidance information for students entering two- or four-year institutions of higher education as well as for course monitoring for appropriate remedial requirements.
The specific skills measured within College Success are:
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Sentence Skills
  • Arithmetic
  • Elementary Algebra
  • College Level Math
  • Writing
  • Listening
  • English Proficiency

College Success allows the administrator to create and modify placement rules and branching profiles, providing for complete customization of the sophisticated adaptive testing technology and branching algorithms.

Sample College Success screen shots are below:

The student End of Test Report displays after the student completes his test, and provides immediate placement results.

The Custom Report is a broader report where one can apply more fields, and provides test results as well as students demographic information.

Multiple choice questions, such as below, can be combined with open-ended constructed response questions within College Success.


Accessibility wizards are available to help users with varying abilities and disabilities.

Results after the Accessibility Wizard is applied:

Results after highlighting is applied:

For more information on the complete set of capabilities within College Success,
please request a live demonstration of the program.

With College Success, students and administrators receive immediate diagnostics on specific strengths and weakness so students can be placed properly and in the appropriate courses so they can succeed in college . . . and that's not all:

  • Easy to use, innovative online tools to effectively and efficiently manage all of your placement testing, learning and remediation needs
  • Reduce costs and time involved with grading essays by using proven, reliable, and valid automated scoring of essays and open ended, constructive responses from your students
  • Improve placement testing processes by delivering your content, written by your experts, and deemed appropriate by your administration to accurately and reliably place incoming freshman into your courses
  • Improve placement testing processes by delivering our content, written by our experts, and deemed appropriate by your administration to accurately and reliably place incoming freshman into your courses
  • Expedite admissions processing by reliably scoring admissions essay online
  • Reduce remediation expenses by providing tools to students to learn core concepts required for college success
  • Send and receive class assignments by effectively using the virtual library
  • Enhance overall student learning experience
  • Web based platform, easily delivered via the internet for convenience.
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CorrectEnglish™ Academic Plus

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Instead of worrying about grammar, development, and formatting, users of CorrectEnglish™Academic Plus can concentrate on developing compelling content. CorrectEnglish can be used for any type of writing, and is especially useful for research papers, critiques, abstracts, lab reports and even everyday communication. By deploying the application to an entire class or all of your faculty members, you can be assured that both students and teachers are able to create superior papers without distracting grammatical errors, and that they are adhering to standards such as APA, CBE, MLA, and the Chicago Manual of Style.
  • Basic writing instruction for English language learners and developing writers
  • Complete integration with Microsoft® Word and Outlook
  • Advanced grammar and scoring technology
  • Word choice assistance
  • Document formatting in four popular styles: APA, CBE, MLA, and Chicago
  • Graphic display of errors and document statistics
  • Fully customizable writing environment
  • Cross-lingual feedback in 7 languages
  • Access to the best grammar and automated scoring engines available
  • Editing tools and style resources necessary to compose exceptionally written research papers, proposals, abstracts, essays, and more
  • Support for writing curriculum vitae, research proposals, and personal statements
  • APA, CBE, CMS, and MLA style support for in-text citations and bibliographies
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MY Access!® College Edition

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With MY Access!® College, an online diagnostic and instructional tool, your students can learn to write more polished papers at their own pace through practice papers and revision tools. This program is the perfect supplementary writing tutor that can be used individually or in conjunction with educator led instruction. Utilizing the award-winning Intellimetric® automated essay-scoring system, your students will get the benefit of the engine used to score the GMAT, MCAT and LSAT tests.
Students can set their own pace through an interactive, visually-based environment that allows them to write and revise as often as they want This robust online writing tutor is appropriate for all college students; but is especially valuable to freshman, transfer students and English Language Learners.
  • Student-Friendly - online interface requires no software downloads
  • Unlimited Writing Opportunities - students can continually improve their writing
  • Immediate Instructional Feedback - helps students develop numerous writing techniques
  • Diverse Prompts - cross section of writing topics covering a variety of genres
  • Independent Experience - students can set their own goals and monitor progress, as well as send reports to anyone they choose to inform of their progress
  • Revision Plans - automatically generated revision plans based on student strengths and weaknesses
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MY Access!® Professional Edition

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MY Access!® Professional Edition guides business school students through the process of learning to write purposefully, powerfully, and persuasively. And more companies consider good writing skills essential for both employment and promotion. Endorsed and supported by the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®), MY Access!® Professional Edition will improve your business writing skills and give you an edge on your competition. Time-saving technologies, valuable self-guided instruction, and immediate feedback make MY Access!® an effective and efficient solution to develop your writing skills.
MY Access!® guides users through the process of writing and revising to improve their writing skills and build confidence in their abilities. With time-saving technologies, valuable self-guided instruction, and immediate feedback; MY Access!® is an effective and efficient solution to develop anyone's writing skills.
  • Completely Web-based, so there's no software to load. It's accessible anywhere there is a computer and an Internet connection-at home, at work, or on the road.
  • Self-paced and interactive lessons focused on real-world tasks guide users through the writing process: planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing.
  • Provides instant and accurate feedback and individualized learning plans, so users remain motivated as they develop skills that will impact their career.
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IntelliMetric® and E-Write IntelliMetric Within™

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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
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iSEEK Supercruncher™

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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 student data and create the most comprehensive reports. Whether you're compiling data to analyze incoming class, graduating class, admissions processes or trying to better assess your current student's needs, iSEEK Seupercuncher.
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. Now you control your data, instead of your data controlling you.
  • Create any report you need, at any time, with just a few click of the mouse.
  • Narrow down your report from thousands of results to the tens/hundreds that you really need within minutes.
  • Create reports on student demographics, test scores, areas in need of improvement, financial aid status and much more.
  • Create a separate report for each or have them all in together in one. The power belongs to you!
  • The reporting capabilities are limitless, and for the first time you can access, view, manipulate and control your own data!
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