Yardstick Testing Solutions
Defensible online testing delivery & psychometric consulting.
Use Yardstick Measure and Yardstick Psychometrics to deliver your
defensible, high-stakes exams.
Yardstick Measure
Yardstick Psychometrics
Our Exam Delivery Software
Defensible Exam Development
Secure
Infrastructure
Candidate
Management
& Booking
Developing
Competency
Profiles
Item
Development
Reporting
Exam
Administration
& Centres
Exam Form
Assembly
Test
Administration
Item Banking
& Authoring
Exam Creation
& Delivery
Item Analysis
Standard
Setting
Yardstick
Redpen
Yardstick
Itematic
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Yardstick Edmonton
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[email protected]
Phone: (780) 409-5606
Phone: (647) 725-0140
Toll Free: (866) 793-4820
Toll Free: (888) 382-9676
Fax: (780) 409-9138
Fax: (416) 642-1317
#200, 8616 – 51 Avenue
PostMedia Building, 1602 365 Bloor St. East
Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 6E6
Toronto, Ontario
Yardstick Measure
Our exam delivery software
Candidate Management & Booking
Secure Infrastructure
Uptime is of utmost importance, and we ensure our server
architecture supports scalability and high response time. With 256bit encryptions, disaster recovery protocol, US and Canadian based
data centres, and 24-hour monitoring, your data is safe and secure.
Our dedicated private cloud and content delivery network deliver
content at lightening fast speeds.
Item Banking
Storing your questions securely in an item bank is the essential first
step in building defensible exams. Features include: unlimited item
banks, administrative permissions, search options, bulk question
editing, import items, and folder based organization.
Item Authoring
Subject Matter Experts create high quality questions that get
reviewed, approved, and finally appear on an operational
certification or licensure examination. Easily add images, modify
questions, and track exam results with our flexible and robust
functionality.
Reporting
Each report within Yardstick Measure provides robust options for
filtering such as selecting date ranges, user reports, and exam
history.
Yardstick Measure provides industry leading candidate
(student, test-taker) management and booking
functionality to ensure that processes are automated as
much as possible to make the most of computer-based
exam delivery. Easily manage exam purchases, add and
import users, set up exam sessions and venues, and online
booking in Yardstick Measure.
Exam Creation
Once all of your high quality questions have been authored,
reviewed, and tested it is time to assemble your exam
forms. Assembling, configuring, and organizing your exams
is easy to manage with Yardstick Measure.
Exam Delivery
Yardstick Measure is the premier online exam delivery
platform featuring modern and intuitive user interface
designs and state of the art functionality. Yardstick Measure
allows for administration of a range of assessments
from low stakes formative assessments to high stakes
certification/licensure assessments.
Exam Administration & Centres
Yardstick offers the most comprehensive exam delivery
centres for computer-based testing in Canada with over
175+ locations coast to coast. Yardstick has also developed
a world-class secure network of exams centers located
across the United States and internationally.
A 55 year-old female has been under treatment for arthritis
with three weeks of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
She now notes three days of increasing chest pressure with
exertion and black, tarry stools. On examination she appears
pale, and her vital signs are: Pulse 112/min; BP: 90/60; Resp:
21; Temp: 98.5 F.
Yardstick RedPen
RedPen integrates seamlessly with Yardstick Measure, and
through a user-friendly interface, marking administrators
can easily set up marking teams, workflows, and timelines.
A) Increased myocardial oxygen demand due to sinus tachycardia
B) Decreased oxygen carrying capacity due to anemia
C) Increased left ventricular wall tension due to increased preload
D) Increased myocardial contractility due to increased sympathetic tone
Yardstick Itematic
Yardstick Itematic helps you build your item bank quickly,
effectively, and within budget. Yardstick Itematic is a
user-friendly web-based tool where your authors can create
hundreds of questions at a time, instead of just one.
Yardstick Psychometrics
Our defensible exam services
Test Administration
Defining Target & Creating Specifications
This process involves compiling an inventory of skills and
knowledge required for mastery of the subject area, called a
competency profile. The robust and defensible competency
profile must then be distilled into an examination blueprint.
An examination blueprint identifies what competency
areas should be weighted as greater or lessor importance
in comparison to one another as reflected by the number of
questions that will be asked on an examination.
Item Development
As simple as it sounds, item development is careful work
that requires the co-ordination of several groups of experts,
working together to ensure that the right numbers of items
in the right categories are created. This process is closely
managed to ensure that the right amounts and kinds of
Test Administration is all about the sound administration of
your exam form(s). All the work that has gone into building
the blueprint, creating the question content, establishing
the item bank, and assembling the test forms is about to
go to the next level. The central concern here is to create
conditions for administration and the handling of key
and sensitive information that are consistent with the
‘seriousness’ of the exam. These conditions help ensure
that candidate’s knowledge, skills, and ability are both
necessary and sufficient for success on the exam.
Item and Test analysis
Item and test analysis involves analyzing the data that
has been collected from an examination administration
to psychometrically evaluate the quality of the items and
exam forms.
questions are authored to fit the unique requirements and
constraints of your certification program.
Standard Setting
Standard setting typically involves a panel of subject
Assembling Exam Form(s)
Assembling exam form(s) is where we construct one or more
exam forms from the quality items that have been authored
and reviewed in the item bank. Yardstick makes extensive use
of Automated Test Assembly (ATA) techniques in order to save
your organization time, and time is money!
Yardstick Assessment Life Cycle
Each stage of the Assessment Life Cycle is
important in achieving defensible examinations
and ensuring the success of your testing program.
matter experts and stakeholders who must estimate
the difficulty of each question for so-called minimally
competent, or borderline candidates. Those judgments are
then aggregated in order to arrive at a passing score across
sets of questions. Yardstick has experience with a number
of common methods of standard setting, such as the
Modified Angoff method and the Bookmark procedure.