FastTest: Streamline exam development and delivery
FastTest is a comprehensive ecosystem to support high-stakes or high-volume exams, whether Certification, Employment, or Education. Drive item banking through secure or embeddable delivery to location management and eCommerce.
Designed by assessment professionals, for assessment professionals.
FastTest drives the entire assessment cycle, with modern psychometrics embedded throughout, including item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT). This makes it easier to develop high-quality items, assemble tests, deliver online, analyze statistics, and get results – fast.
Cost-Effective
Better tests need better questions. FastTest makes it easier to manage large pools of items and SMEs, with customizable workflows.
Efficient
Make content experts more productive with intuitive interfaces. Publish tests in minutes with automated assembly or LOFT. Quickly upload your examinees or plug in an API.
Secure
Configure test security: passcodes, proctor access, time limits/windows, navigation, lockdown, proctoring, IP addresses.
Smarter
Designed to drive best practices and advanced psychometrics like IRT and CAT. Apply responsible AI like item generation or essay scoring.
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The end-to-end solution for high-quality assessment
Item banking, test assembly, publishing, scheduling, delivery, psychometric analysis, score reports, candidate portal… It’s all there.
Develop Item Banks Faster, Publish New Forms Quickly
Reduce exam development time: Create item banks more efficiently with our user-friendly authoring interface, then quickly assemble and publish test forms.
Enhance assessment usability: Use tech-enhanced items like drag-and-drop, essay, and fill-in-the-blank options.
Improve content quality: Track item versioning with workflow management.
Improve assessment validity: Detailed metadata, including custom fields and statistics.
Easily assemble, publish, and manage your exams
Build defensible tests: Harness Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) for robust test design, supporting multiple IRT models.
Set cutscores: Use the modified-Angoff method for defensible cutscores.
Secure delivery: Protect online tests with remote proctoring, test centers, adaptive (CAT), multistage, or LOFT methods. Set navigation controls, access, lockdown, and much more.
Automated scoring and reporting: Linear or normative scaled scoring conversions and automated psychometric reports.
Flexibly manage your high-stakes test delivery with FastTest
Versatile delivery methods: Choose from unproctored, onsite, virtual, or testing center options.
Advanced security options: From open links to lockdown browsers, control your test’s security level.
Seamless payment processing: Easily integrate payment/registration options for test takers.
Enhance assessment quality with automated scoring and psychometrics
Instant reports: Generate detailed reports in Microsoft Word with one click to evaluate item and test performance.
Test insights: Access descriptive statistics, reliability indices, standard error measurements, and distribution analyses.
Item analysis: Review quantile plots, difficulty, discrimination (point biserial), and distractor analysis for item-level insights
Automated scoring and reporting: Linear or normative scaled scoring conversions and automated psychometric reports.
FastTest is the best IRT-based adaptive testing platform
IRT item banking: Upload your IRT parameters from our Xcalibre platform, R packages, or other popular software.
Set configuration: Specify item selection, content balancing, exposure controls, and termination criterion. Not sure what to use? We can help.
Publish and deliver with one click: Once set up, simply publish the test and you can start delivering IRT-based adaptive tests immediately.
FAQ: FastTest
There are a ton of assessment tools on the market. FastTest is designed only for exams where the quality is critical and psychometrics is non-negotiable.
Highly secure. We have achieved SOC2 Type 2 security accreditation from an independent third party auditor. Users are provided with specific roles and content-based access. You can turn on additional features like multi-factor authentication. Examinees can be required to have unique one-time passwords, lockdown browser, and activity tracking. You govern time limits, re-take access, time/date window, and much more. Add on live remote proctoring for an additional layer.
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.
Adaptive testing uses IRT to personalize the exam for every student, candidate, or examinee. It typically refers to tests that adapt after every item while multistage testing adapts in blocks of items. This personalized assessment paradigm makes tests more accurate, more engaging, and more secure.
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.
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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