Our psychometric Gregs have completed the next white paper in our series on the Assessment Life Cycle. Stage Four in the series is all about the sound administration of the exam form(s). All the work that has gone into building the blueprint, creating the question content, establishing the item bank, and assembling the test forms is about to go to the next level.

You’ve read about the expert work our psychometricians are delivering, now is your chance to be part of Yardstick’s expert team.

Working directly with our psychometric services team, the Project Coordinator/Analyst is responsible for coordinating and project managing the exam administration and development activities for Yardstick’s high stakes customers. In addition, the Project Coordinator/Analyst would conduct basic data manipulation and analysis to support psychometric services staff.

Assembling Exam Form(s), the fourth title in our white paper series on the Assessment Life Cycle, is now available for download.

This stage is where we construct one or more exam forms from the quality items that have been authored and reviewed in the item bank.

This week we were thrilled to be named to the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 500 List and the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 50 List. These
prestigious lists are well known, recognizing companies that managed rapid growth through the global economic challenges that are facing North American companies.

We want you! Yardstick is growing and we are looking to add dynamic and entrepreneurial members to our accounting team.

Are you self-driven with an accounting background and strong work ethic? Are you searching for an opportunity to challenge your skills in a fast-paced, tech environment that is dedicated to offering heroic customer service?

We’re moving right along with our release of Yardstick white papers in the series focused on the Assessment Life Cycle. Today we release the third instalment: Item Development.

Stage 2 of the Assessment Life Cycle is where the test questions are created to populate your high-stakes certification/licensure item bank.

Today we are excited to announce the release of our second white paper in the Assessment Life Cycle series…Stage 1: Defining Target and Creating Specifications.

This first stage in the cycle is where any assessment program starts. Here test developers decide what they’d like their assessment to be able to conclude about test takers, and finish by creating a crystal clear blueprint on the number and types of test questions that need to be written.

In a few short weeks, Yardstick psychometricians Dr. Greg Sadesky and Greg Pope will be presenting at the CNNAR Canadian Regulators Conference. This conference wil be held at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto on November 3 and 4, and will address emerging regulatory issues and exchange information between licensing boards, accrediting agencies, examining bodies, government officials at all levels and others.

The Yardstick development team is creating magic and this week they’re releasing the item import wizard.

With only a few key strokes, this intuitive functionality allows administrators to create folders, customize item fields, standardized question text, and build item banks. Now you can easily move items onto the Measure platform and maximize your item writing efforts utilizing the powerful banking interface.

Today is an exciting day at Yardstick! After months of dedicated production we are making live our Psychometric White Paper Library.

Now you can have access to expert psychometric white papers, written by Yardstick’s psychometricians Greg Sadesky and Greg Pope. As we build our library you will see topics on every avenue of psychometrics and high stakes testing, as well as topics proprietary to our Measure platform.

The psychometric Gregs at Yardstick have facilitated a number of item development workshops in 2011 to a broad range of high stakes organizations. We thought it would be useful to summarize some of the common best practices around item development in a series of posts.

In the previous articles we looked at some ways that you can evaluate the quality of items that you produce. In this third article we will provide some checklists that can be used to ensure the quality of each and every item you create.

The psychometric Gregs at Yardstick have facilitated a number of item development workshops in 2011 to a broad range of high stakes organizations. We thought it would be useful to summarize some of the common best practices around item development in a series of posts.

In our first article on the topic of item development, we talked about the anatomy of a multiple-choice question. In this article we thought we would lay out some basic rules and principals to test the quality of the items being developed.