Oral and practical assessments have long been a part of the educational process, especially for complex or hands-on professions. This video discusses best practices to deliver such assessments online, while maintaining security and validity. Presenters: Patrick Ochoa - VP of Partnerships at Assessment Systems https://assess.com/ Kaiti Hofer - Director of High-Stakes Assessments at MonitorEDU https://monitoredu.com/
The integrity and security of assessment is essential, both to protect the investment you made in your exams, as well as to trust the scores that are the result. Remote proctoring, aka online or virtual proctoring, is a cost-effective yet high-quality way to provide this safeguard. Of course, the effectiveness can be improved by following some best practices!
Join us for a conversation on this topic with Kranthi Bathula, CTO and Co-Founder of Proctor360. Proctor360 is a leading remote proctoring company that's transforming how educational institutions and credentialing/employment organizations conduct secure online assessments. In this webinar, we discuss some of those best practices, but also the exciting journey of building a SaaS company in the EdTech industry. Key points include:
Kranthi’s journey in the assessment world
Building a Saas platform with an international team
How to effectively implement remote proctoring while balancing important considerations like accessibility and student experience
Common ways that students cheat, and how to deter or catch them
Target Audience:
Educational administrators and instructors
Certification managers
HR professionals that oversee remote assessments
EdTech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs
Anyone interested in the future of secure online testing
About This Episode's Guest :
Kranthi Bathula is the Co-Founder and CTO of Proctor360, an EdTech company specializing in secure online proctoring for high-stakes exams. With an extensive background in engineering, he leads the design of multi-camera and AI-enabled solutions that help institutions uphold exam integrity in remote environments.
A credentialing exam is a product that needs to be marketed and sold, as is the case for ancillary products like practice tests or study guides, but most credentialing organizations need some help! In this webinar, discover why many credentialing organizations are leaving money on the table with outdated marketing approaches and learn the game-changing strategies that industry leaders use to drive stronger growth.
Industry expert Amanda Crowley discusses how to revolutionize your candidate communications, develop a results-driven marketing plan, and master social media engagement to build a thriving certification community. We will discuss a mindset shift that separates successful organizations from struggling ones: treating your certification as the valuable product it truly is, complete with strategic positioning, targeted messaging, and customer-centric marketing. Don't let your credentialing program get lost in the noise; join us to learn proven tactics for increasing enrollment, boosting candidate satisfaction, and establishing your certification as the gold standard in your industry. Walk away with actionable strategies you can implement immediately to transform your organization's growth trajectory, increase ROI, and better serve your profession.
This Episode's Guest: Amanda Crowley
Amanda is one of the key marketing experts in the assessment industry, including serving as Director of Marketing for ITS. She recently launched her own consultancy (http://www.helloacmc.com/) and is available for engagements to help grow your credentialing and assessment programs.
In this webinar, we discuss non-cognitive pre-employment testing, specifically the assessment of resilience, with Alina Oshyna, the founder of PsyLab (https://en.psylab.dp.ua/). Psylab is a factory of behavior modelling assessments that has come out with the industry-leading resilience assessment but is developing a wider range based on market requirements.
Alina has an extensive background in psychometrics and human resources, including experience from Silicon Valley startups to governmental organizations, such as the UK National Foundation for Educational Research, Moody’s Analytics, Gyfted, and JobTestPrep. She is Israeli-Ukrainian, and currently lives in Dnipro, Ukraine. Alina has researched all existing personality tests on the market and worked on a wide variety of tests: personality, integrity, cognitive ability, certification exams, and continuous performance tests used for ADHD diagnostics.
Some of the topics we will be discussing
What is stress resilience?
How is it useful in predicting job performance?
How do we assess it, and how is it different than traditional assessment?
Why do we need assessments that are not self-report?
How do we detect and prevent careless responding?
What is it like to found and run your own assessment company?
Assessment is a key part of human resources, especially in the selection of employees. Pre-employment tests with strong validity and reliability are essential to recruitment, by flagging those candidates that have the requisite skills and knowledge to succeed in a job, as well as harder-to-assess traits such as integrity, conscientiousness, and culture fit. This webinar will feature two experts in pre-employment assessment, Clinton Kelly and Jason Schaefer of ioPredict (https://iopredict.com), discussing some of the key topics in the field:
In this episode, we have a panel discussion with three experts in the field of online proctoring:
Don Kassner - CEO of MonitorEDU
Scott Crumpler - Global Marketing Director of Proctor360
Mike Murphy -CEO of ProctorFree
In this episode, we hear from Belinda Brunner, an experienced test development manager and certification program manager. She'll be talking about the role of quality control in the test publication process.
Confused about the different terminologies regarding workforce credentialing? Wondering how to build a certification that is aligned with international standards? Have a certification or certificate that you would like to get accredited, but not sure where to start? Wondering how the concept of credentialing will evolve as our economy continues to evolve? We will discuss all these and more! About the speaker: Joy Matthews-Lopez, PhD, is an experienced psychometrician and former chair of the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, the premier board that awards accreditation to certification programs. Joy has more than two decades of experience with certification, including Prometric, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Professional Testing Inc. She is currently President of JML Measurement and Testing Services and partners with Assessment Systems for key projects as well. Joy earned her Doctorate from the University of Ohio and Master's from North Carolina State University.
In this episode, we talk about competency modeling and professional credentialing with Manny Straehle, PhD GSIF, as well as his experience in the world of psychometrics. Manny Straehle, PhD GSIF is the Founder and President of Assessment, Education, and Research Experts (AERE, https://www.aerexperts.com/), and an internationally-recognized expert on assessment, credentialing and competency modeling. He has a PhD from Temple University and a MA from New York University.
Prof. David J. Weiss is widely regarded as the father of computerized adaptive testing (CAT), leading much of the seminal research in the 1970s. That research is one of the early applications of AI and machine learning in assessment, and also of the use of computers. Listen to his story of how he got interested in psychometrics, measurement, and computers, how the early research started, and what has kept him researching to this day.
Prof. Weiss is the longtime director of the Psychometrics PhD program at the University of Minnesota, founder of the journal Applied Psychological Measurement, cofounder of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing, and co-founder of Insurance Testing Corporation.
What is Psychometrics? It's a pretty cool-sounding name, and one that is often misunderstood. This episode provides a brief introduction to the topic, and about the practitioner, a Psychometrician. Here are some of the aspects covered:
- Definition, including what is NOT psychometrics
- Brief history of the field
- Where psychometrics is used
- Real-world issues that psychometricians work on to ensure fair, valid tests
- How to join the band!
