The digital assessment platform to launch better tests, faster
A full ecosystem to transform your exams: item banking, online assessment, proctoring, candidate portal, and test development services.
FastTest: A comprehensive online test platform – driven white-label engine and modern psychometrics.
Deliver digital tests with the security you need
Our powerful online assessment platform simplifies and improves the entire cycle of high-stakes or large-scale exams like Certification or K-12 Benchmark.
- Reduce timelines for publishing
- Smarter, shorter tests with IRT and adaptive testing
- Configure security, from date windows to watermarks to proctoring to lockdown
- Enhance your brand with a white-label and embeddable engine
- Unproctored, your locations, online proctoring, test centers
Powerful authoring to build better item banks, faster
FastTest provides the ideal platform to author items, manage large item banks, and assemble test forms.
- Reduce bottlenecks with SMEs
- Improve engagement with dozens of item types
- Save time with easy republishing
- Track metadata for validity
- Manage your own Angoff studies
- Keep content secure with roles, tagging, and MFA
Start sailing with a trial account or talk to one of our experts
Request a trial account to see just how easy FastTest is to use, while still being packed with powerful functionality like adaptive testing.
Not sure where to start? One of our psychometricians or assessment experts can discuss.
Your guide to stronger assessment: Test Development and Psychometric Experts
Need help developing your test or certification program? Our team of experts will help ensure your online exams meet international standards, including the North Star benchmarks of NCCA, ANSI, and AERA/APA/NCME. We work to understand your organization’s needs and craft a solution that makes business sense for you.
Test Design & Development
Building a strong test is not easy, and you need a guide. We’ll help with job analysis, blueprints, item writing workshops, publishing, QA, and SME management.
Develop better tests
Psychometrics & Statistics
Our PhD psychometricians are experts in item and test analysis, equating, standard setting, and test validation. Worldwide leaders in advanced methods like IRT & CAT.
Psychometric Consulting
Program Management
Let us handle the day-to-day work so your volunteers don’t have to, from prepping handbooks to scheduling and proctoring online exams.
Simplify Operations
Certification Accreditation
We’ll help you achieve accreditation for your certification or assessment-based certificate, against international standards like NCCA or ANSI/ISO.
Achieve AccreditationCompliance and security built in, not bolted on
Assessment Systems has passed independent audits for SOC2 Type II, WCAG, and FedRAMP. Role-based access controls, MFA, proctoring, lockdown, and content-level permissions protect every exam at every stage. We can also help with test security plans and forensics.
Improve Security
Journeying with organizations that value high-quality assessment
Assessment Systems serves as the trusted guide organizations responsible for online assessments that must be fair, defensible, and scalable over time — including certification bodies, hiring departments, government agencies, and higher-education institutions.
Certification & Licensure
Your program deserves more than an LMS quiz module. ASC provides a comprehensive, turnkey solution that lets you focus on running the org. Our certification exam platform will handle item banking, proctored delivery, and branded candidate portal, while our experts navigate the confusing waters of NCCA/ANAB accreditation.
Workforce & Employment
Find better candidates, faster. Improve civil service selection, skills testing, and competency validation. Manage examinee pipelines, scheduling, delivery, and reporting from a single platform. Connect APIs to leverage scores effectively and immediately. Deliver securely.
K-12 & Higher Education
Build & deliver at scale: benchmark assessments, placement/admissions testing, and summative exams. Deliver smarter tests with adaptive and multistage algorithms. Access insightful reporting to transform learning. Embed our white-label engine to build your brand.
FAQ: Getting started with Assessment Systems – from item banking to online testing to psychometrics
It’s not easy to build and deliver a high-quality exam like a professional certification test or nationwide educational assessment. We can guide you every step of the way.
Online assessment platforms are enterprise software systems designed to manage large-scale and high-stakes examinations for organizations that need more than basic MCQ exam software or an LMS. Examples are a civil service selection department that exists to administer pre-employment exams or a certification board that exists to deliver certification exams. The software is designed with advanced functionality necessary for these organizations, including item banking, complex test construction, security layers, and modern psychometrics like adaptive testing. They also include modules for examinee management, scheduling, psychometric reports, and proctoring. Anyone can build an MCQ quiz engine; there are only a handful of professional-grade enterprise assessment platforms like FastTest.
Item banking is the process of developing, reviewing, and managing large pools of items. A professionally-managed exam will have a pool of items which are frequently rotated, with needs to track metadata such as statistics. It’s also often required to have a workflow management module to ensure all items are reviewed, and user management with roles and content-based access, such as ensuring Math item writers only see the Math bank and can only write new items.
Item response theory is the modern psychometric paradigm, used for developing, analyzing, and validating most of the large-scale and important assessments in the world. It utilizes a machine learning approach which provides a number of advantages, including more accurate scores, stronger equating (making sure that multiple forms and years are equivalent), and adaptive testing.
Psychometric consulting is the necessary work to develop high-quality exams that meet international standards such as AERA/APA/NCME or NCCA. These require complex studies like Job Task Analysis, standard setting studies like the Angoff method, or machine-learning analytics like item response theory. If you don’t have a psychometrician in-house, you will need to hire consultants. Our team will work to understand your requirements, which can differ based on the type of exam, and recommend a cost-effective plan to achieve your goals
Remote proctoring is a way to ensure the validity and integrity of your test without forcing examinees to drive to a physical testing center. There is actually a range of options pertaining to levels of security, from low-security exams that just record video with AI flagging to high-security exams where the computer is locked down and there are two video streams watched by a live person in real time. ASC partners with a number of providers to tailor a solution to your needs and budget.
Yes, our platform is built with a modern API architecture. We have established specific APIs such as registering candidates and sending scores. You can embed our tests in your fully branded platform. You can also set up SSO.
Request a demo from one of our product experts. If your organization is qualified to leverage next-gen online assessment software, we can provide a free trial account as well as pricing. Our consultants can also meet with you to advise on the test development process. Because the platform is designed for professional-grade situations and not quizzes, pricing starts at $5,950 per year.
Yes! We frequently work organizations that need a hand in developing high-quality assessments. We focus on high-stakes tests like professional certifications or university admissions, including topics like job analysis, test design, standard setting, statistical analysis, equating, and adaptive testing. We do not work with low-quality assessments like a happiness survey.
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