Assessment Life Cycle Stage 3: Assembling your Examination Forms
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Facilitation in the Age of COVID-19: Making the Most of your Online Client Sessions
Author: Dustin Shullick
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COVID-19 has forced many licensure and certification organizations to re-examine the ways in which they approach exam development and consider swapping in-person exercises for online meetings. If current projections around the curve of the virus hold, online sessions may become the norm in organizational life for some time to come. In some ways, this move […]
What is a Psychometrician Anyways?
Author: Chris Beauchamp
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As a young boy growing up in a small logging community in Northern Ontario, I always wanted to be a psychometrician. While my friends dreamed of becoming astronauts, police officers or secret agents, I’d dream of a career in psychometrics, standard-setting, item response theory, job analyses and complex data arrays. That’s what dreams are made […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE // POUR PUBLICATION IMMÉDIATE: Meazure Learning
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le français suivra* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ProctorU and Yardstick Assessment Strategies Merge to Form Meazure Learning, Establishing World’s Most Secure Testing Network and Platform Meazure Learning raises more than US$30M in growth capital in conjunction with the merger, enabling additional investments in technology and services BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and OTTAWA, Ont. (January 14, 2020) – ProctorU, […]
Yardstick to match donations to the Canadian Nurses Foundation
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We’re helping donors double their impact by matching donations on December 3rd. OTTAWA, ON, November 29th – “Nurses help us during the most amazing and difficult points in our lives, and Canadians are grateful for it.” This Giving Tuesday on December 3rd, donations to the Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF) will be matched by Ottawa-based […]
ICE Exchange 2019 Schedule of Events
Author: Yardstick Assessment Strategies
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As the Silver Sponsor of ICE Exchange 2019, we are pleased to announce our line-up of main events. San Diego, CA: Nov 18 – 21 at Hilton San Diego Bayfront. If you’d like to book a quick chat with us, you can use our booking tool HERE or feel free to drop by booth #100 anytime […]
The Balancing Act in High-Stakes Exam Delivery: Exam Security and Candidate Experience
Author: Yardstick Assessment Strategies
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What is high-stakes testing? Why are there rules and processes for administering high-stakes exams? What are the key considerations when administering these exams in test centres across multiple locations? These are all excellent questions that need clear answers for credentialing organizations, regulators, proctors, and candidates. It is especially important that exam administration information and security […]
Case Study: FP Canada
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Project overview: FP Canada, incorporated on in 1995, is a professional standards-setting and certification body for the financial planning industry in Canada. FP Canada ensures the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) professionals and FPSC Level 1 certificants in Financial Planning meet appropriate high standards of competence and professionalism through rigorous requirements of education, examination, experience and […]
Case Study: National Dental Hygiene Certification Board
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Project overview: The National Dental Hygiene Certification Board (NDHCB) acts in the public interest to ensure high quality standards for Dental Hygienists in Canada by providing a valid and reliable testing mechanism for dental hygiene competencies to support Canadian regulatory bodies. On behalf of all Canadian provincial and territorial Dental Hygiene regulators (except QC), the […]
Case Study: Canadian Organization of Paramedic Regulators
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Project overview: The Canadian Organization of Paramedic Regulators (COPR) is a National organization whose mandate is to represent the collective interests of Canada’s 10 provincial regulators. Key among those interests in the provision of safe and ethical care from licensed, competent, and qualified paramedics. In support of this goal, COPR published a request for proposals […]