Posted by Austin Fossey In an earlier post, Questionmark’s Julie Delazyn listed 11 tips to help prevent cheating. The third item on that list related to […]

Posted by Austin Fossey A few months ago, I had an interesting conversation with an assessment manager at an educational institution—not a Questionmark customer, mind you. […]

Posted by Austin Fossey I recently spent time looking for research studies that analyzed the security levels of online and in-person proctoring. Unfortunately, no one seems […]

Posted by Austin Fossey One of the first steps in an evidence-centered design (ECD) approach to assessment development is a domain analysis. If you work in […]

Posted by Austin Fossey A client recently asked me if there is a way to count the number of each type of item in their item […]

Posted by Julie Delazyn Whether you work with low-stakes assessments, small-scale classroom assessments or large-scale, high-stakes assessment, understanding and applying some basic principles of item […]

Posted by Austin Fossey If you work with assessment statistics or just about any branch of social science, you may be familiar with Simpson’s paradox—the idea […]

Posted by Austin Fossey In my last post, I explained the statistical futility and interpretive quagmires that result from using negative item scores in Classical Test […]

Posted by Austin Fossey Last year, a client asked for my opinion about whether or not to use negative scores on test items. For example, if […]

Posted by Austin Fossey This post concludes my series on item development in large-scale assessment. I’ve discussed some key processes in developing items, including drafting items, […]

Posted by Julie Delazyn The Questionmark Users Conference is the most important learning event of the year. With over a dozen sessions to attend and […]

Since the last Questionmark Users Conference, I have heard several clients discuss new measures at their companies requiring them to provide evidence of the legal […]