Innovation, efficiency, and security in large-scale online assessment
The TestNav test delivery system helps you administer tests online and on demand, securely and dependably. Today’s students are completely at home in a digital environment, where a keyboard, mouse, navigation buttons, toolbars, and point-and-click skills are familiar tools. TestNav uses these tools in a student friendly interface that employs interactive tools and innovative flash items, enhancing the test-taking experience for all computer literacy levels.
Online test delivery can help your assessment program move away from the labor-consuming burden of paper-and-pencil tests while providing assessment results quickly. TestNav delivers over a million tests annually while meeting the security requirements of high-stakes, large-scale assessment programs.
Research
Pearson ensures that a wealth of research, reliability and validity studies, and psychometric excellence is built into every test. In addition, we strive to offer you news about the latest developments in the field, along with the research, tools, and help you need to administer, score, and interpret our tests.
Weighted Penalty Model for Content Balancing in CATS (PDF - 196 KB)
Growth, Precision, and CAT: An Examination of Gain Score Conditional SEM (PDF - 379 KB)
The Validity Case for Assessing Direct Writing by Computer (PDF - 154 KB)
Practical Questions in Introducing Computerized Adaptive Testing for K-12 Assessments (PDF - 337 KB)
SDRT 4/SDMT 4 Administration Mode Comparability Study (PDF - 547 KB)