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1. The Assessment Life Cycle

This paper is an overview of the components of the Assessment Life Cycle. Here we talk about organizing
the processess involved in creating sound assessments into a series of easy-to-understand stages.

2. Stage 1: Defining Targets 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.

3. Stage 2: 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.

4. Stage 3: Assembling Exam Form(s)

Stage 3 discusses how to construct one or more exam forms from the quality items that have been authored and reviewed in the item bank.

5. Stage 4: Test Administration

Stage 4 discusses 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.

6. Stage 5: Item & Test Analysis

Stage 5 of the Assessment Life Cycle involves analyzing the data that has been collected from examination administration to psychometrically evaluate the quality of the items and exam forms.

7. Stage 6: Standard Setting

Stage 6 is all about the business of setting passing scores, (AKA ‘cut scores’), for examinations. The cut score(s) serves to classify candidates into categories; those who score above the cut score are judged to possess the minimum level of proficiency required for inclusion into the category, while those who score below the cut score are deemed not to possess the minimum level of proficiency required, and are classified accordingly.