We realize that a successful testing program is more than flawless test delivery and a positive user experience. Your assessments need to be valid, reliable and legally defensible. You also need to decide which types of questions are best for your assessment objectives. Whether you need help with a job task analysis, creating a test blueprint, authoring items or creating a test

TESTING SERVICES - Test Development

A True Partnership

Experience has proven that a successful partnership is based on combining strengths, resources and a clear understanding of the overall goals. Our philosophy towards each project focuses on open communication, education, support and expert guidance.

The first step is to meet with your key project stakeholders to ensure we have a clear understanding of your business objectives or the challenge you are trying to overcome. Then together we can build a customized program integrating our professional services and technologies.

Test Development

We will develop your tests following psychometric best practices, which are based on professional testing standards as well as legal guidelines. Following these best practices helps to ensure that a test is valid, fair and legally defensible. We provide you with the tools and expertise you need and encourage your internal resources to manage the development steps they have the time and skills to complete.

For each assessment, our psychometricians can facilitate:

• Program design - Defines the program goals, scope, success criteria, target audience, and number of tests.
• Job/competency analysis - A systematic process used to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities (i.e., competencies) required to perform a job.
• Test blueprint development - Provides a road map for the item writers in terms of the topics to be covered by each test, the specific test objectives to be covered under each topic, and the number of test items (i.e., questions) to be written for each test objective.
• Item writing - An online or in-person workshop that instructs your subject experts on how to write high-quality items (i.e., questions). Our online item writing tools greatly expedite the item writing and review process.
• Item review - Items go through multiple reviews (e.g., technical, language, bias, psychometric) to make sure they are technically correct, measure important knowledge and skills, are psychometrically sound, are free from spelling, grammar, punctuation errors, and do not appear to favor any particular nationality, race, religion, or gender.
• Beta testing - Items are administered to a sample of the target population to gather data for statistical analyses.
• Item and test analyses - Statistically analyze the items and test to make sure they meet accepted standards of psychometric quality.
• Standard setting - Determine the minimum score needed to pass each test.
• Forms construction - Construct multiple forms (i.e., versions) of a test so that test-takers do not get the same version twice if they retake the test.

Throughout the test development process, we work closely with your organization to provide the necessary tools and guidance to help ensure that your certification program is:

• Useful - Achieves its business goals/results.
• Credible - Has perceived value and "face validity" in the market place.
• Reliable - Consistently measures what it measures.
• Valid - Measures what it is intended to measure (i.e., is measuring the "right" type and level of knowledge and skills given the purpose of the test).
• Legally defensible - Has followed best practices to help ensure the test is fair and job related.

Outsourcing the creation of your certification tests to KRYTERION helps to ensure that your tests are created using psychometric best practices while reducing your risk and resource allocation

For more information, please visit KryterionOnline.com To Take an Exam at The Career Center: Register by phone at 212-684-5151 Email Us: testing@careercenters.com