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August
2006
Welcome
to the August issue of the Pedagogue Solutions
Newsletter, our online general interest newsletter
for the assessment community. The Newsletter highlights
industry news, provides assessment-related tips
and techniques, and updates our clients on our
latest products and services.
What is an Assessment Management
System (Part 1) ?
An Assessment Management System (AMS)
is a specialized platform for creating, delivering,
managing, and reporting on assessments. While other
tools, such as course authoring programs and Learning
Management Systems (LMS), can provide a limited capacity
to deliver assessments, a full-featured AMS meets the
business need to provide data-rich measurements of training
effectiveness.
The AMS provides immediate and enduring
access to mission-critical training information.
While these tasks can be attempted with
less-capable tools, when an assessment is deployed through
the Assessment Management System, a broad and valuable
range of information is generated. Such measures as
exam reliability and validity, and question discrimination,
are enabled through the detailed data automatically
stored in the AMS. This is because the AMS handles information
in a fundamentally different manner than tools designed
primarily for other purposes.
In the AMS, every single question is an
"item," which endures permanently (with versions
if it is changed), and against which data can be generated.
Pedagogue Solutions can help you during,
before and after a product launch though our assessment
consulting services.
For more information on what an Assessment
Management System is and how you can benefit form having
one contact Pedagogue
Sales or call (609) 921-7585 x22.
Best
Practices
Test Reliability: Should You
Care?
A test, of course, is a form of measurement—
sometimes used for important corporate personnel decisions.
Yet, most corporate trainers accept their measurements
based on a single administration of the test, without
questioning the reliability of their results. This is
certainly true for most of the types of testing done
by our clients: a single summative result that measures
the outcome of a one-time learning experience. Fortunately
there are statistical methods that allow us to measure
test reliability based on a single administration of
a test. How do these reliability measures work?>>
Read
full Test Reliability article.
Did you know that more than half
of our clients have already upgraded to Pedagogue System
8.0?
It's true! Many of our clients are already
enjoying the new features of Pedagogue AMS 8.0. Here
are just a few of the features our Pedagogue 8.0 users
are raving about:
Launch and Track Web-based
Content—With this version we introduce
the ability to launch and track online content, making
it possible to handle many LMS-like operations.
Print a Certificate of
Completion—The Pedagogue System now includes
a Certificate of Completion for your students to print
and retain for their records.
Level 1 Evaluations—With
the Pedagogue Assessment Management System's new flexible
Level One evaluations you can get instant reactions
to any course and store that information along with
your test scores.
For a demonstration of Pedagogue AMS 8.0,
contact Pedagogue
Sales or call (609) 921-7585 x22.
Let us know if there are any topics of
interest to you that we have not covered or you would
like covered in more detail. Send us your feedback
on our services, solutions and resources. We are always
interested in suggestions that would allow us to improve
upon our already high standards and encourage you to
submit your thoughts. Again, thank you.
