MetaCat Assessment Studio

MetaCat Assessment Studio is a full-service assessment platform used since 2000 by national and state education agencies, higher education, and in the professional certification and licensure markets. Tools can be used independently or seamlessly integrated.

Item Bank Management

• Highly-scalable, central repository with unlimited item banks and unlimited items
• Real-time, single-source, XML-based data management
• Robust permissions and access control to the item and item element levels
• Upload and manage associated documents, images and other media
• Unlimited metadata (such as key words, grade level, cognitive demand)
• Unlimited hierarchically-structured metadata (such as common core standards, state or district standards)
• Text and Boolean searches across all fields and item banks
• Import/export any data at any time in a variety of formats including CSV and XML
• Web services architecture for extensibility

Item Development and Customized Workflow

• Fine-grained security and customized workflow for multi-author projects
• Full tracking of edit history
• Common item types available (such as multiple choice, short answer, etc.)
• Graphical item types under development (such as drag and place)
• Incorporate any type of multimedia (may require plugin to view)
• Media and document library management
• Foreign Language translation management

Test Development

• Create and save any number of tests
• Customized review capabilities, including options that limit item exposure
• Export forms in Word, PDF, XML, TDL, CSV, QTI and more
• Standards-setting module
• Adjust scoring weight, feedback

Online Test Delivery

• Random shuffling of questions and response options
• Timed or untimed tests, open/closed test window dates
• Password for day of test and other security options
• Choice of instant or delayed feedback for students
• Student work is saved as they go
• Secure browser for high-stakes testing
• Branded test site options
• Option to embed links to quizzes within course websites
• Easy pilot testing of items, calculate and store classical statistics
• Export test results at any time
• Lock tests so proctors/teachers have deliver-only authority

Real-time Reports

• Variety of reports, such as summaries, longitudinal comparison
• Item analysis with dynamic classical statistic calculations
• Secure reports for student, teacher, and administrator levels
• Unlimited demographic data with real-time disaggregation up four levels
• Archive data for long term storage and longitudinal reporting

Report Samples:

• School: Post-test Summary by Concept/Topic and gender and teacher
  (Confidential data can automatically be redacted based on permissions)
• Classroom: Pre-Post Test Comparison by State Science Standards, grade level, and gender