Test Delivery Solutions
CERTS® – Test Development
CERTS is designed to help everyone on the development team— program managers, test designers, psychometricians, item writers, editors and reviewers—deploy tests reliably and on schedule.
The structured but flexible environment of CERTS makes it easy to efficiently design new tests or update existing ones. Whether you start off with a job task analysis or jump right to test item creation, CERTS will let you know exactly where you are in the test development process. And because you always have complete access to test and item revision data, it’s easy to access information to aid in defending any legal issues that arise.
Develop items easily
- Quickly find what you need through a graphical representation
- Understand relationships between elements, such as which items belong to which objectives and topics
- Choose from a wide variety of item formats
- Access item revision data—where an item is used, author comments and status—to make informed decisions on whether to keep, revise or replace the item
- Create unique item attributes to meet your specific needs
Construct tests on schedule
- Stay on track with your blueprint with test plan status reports
- Use and re-use items from multiple domains to construct tests quickly
- Simply check off and drag-and-drop items into position for quick and easy test construction
- Eliminate naming errors and inconsistencies with user controlled/auto-number labeling
- Maintain distinction between in-process and live tests with “Pending” and “Published” designations
Collaborate on- or off-line
- Support your development team with multi-user access to integrated data
- Protect data with role-based security features that you can easily define and customize
- Work off-line to write and review items in item writing workshops using CERTS Writer, a Microsoft® Word® applet, then merge your work into CERTS
Understand how your tests perform with standard reports
CERTS standard reports provide meaningful information. They pull together data—test results, item statistics, test statistics, item stems and options, comments and candidate performance—to give you insight into how your tests are really performing.
- Automatic standard statistical reports include:
- Frequency distribution
- Section/item level statistics: difficulty, point bi-serial correlation
- Test and item level comments
- Response timing
- Performance by language, region, country
- Output raw data that your psychometrician can import into statistical software
- Generate candidate survey/demographic reports to understand the impact of candidate attributes on test performance
Focus on specific areas with ad hoc queries
- Pull summary and item-level data, however you wish to see it, with the query-by-example feature
- Perform what-if scenarios by removing items from beta tests and re-scoring for cut score analysis to get a better understanding of its impact
- Export query results to formats such as Microsoft Excel® to perform statistical and other analyses
