Use better assessment to advance effective learning
ansrsource has specialized in writing assessments and test items for nearly two decades. We have continually deepened our expertise and diversified the types of assessments we create. We’ve built evaluation programs for all levels and types of learners.
200,000+
assessments and solutions designed annually
3,000+
higher education students using our assessment products
Assessment products used by one Fortune 5, three Fortune 100, and two Fortune 250 corporations
Custom assessment focus area
ansrsource designs an assessment as an exhaustive item with two critical focus areas—concept and structure. Our custom-design principles have been validated and refined in our nearly two decades of experience.
Conceptual aspects
Structural aspects
Design effective assessments
We have expertise writing assessments targeted at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy—remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The choice of question type and approach is driven by your unique needs.
Using Design Thinking in assessment design
Design learner-centric solution manuals
Our assessment accuracy check process
Conceptual aspects
- For accuracy checking assessments, we always create a few questions to test new or untested source content.
- This is not an exhaustive list, but we typically:
- Compare assessments with new edition source files for changes and the TOC.
- Map question stems or right answers to the new edition text, and delete questions that cannot be mapped or have accuracy issues.
- Check questions that lack context, contain obvious true statements, are subjective, address readers or students directly, test the same definitions or concepts tested in other questions, and are illogical or use inconsistent or dated research data (if used).
- For numerical questions, we create worksheets and check grading or concepts (for platforms), formatting (for platforms), tolerance, and random iterations (if any). We typically solve the questions.
Structural aspects
- We check accuracy only for the right answer; as long as the right answer or question stem maps to the new edition, the questions will be retained.
- We check for:
- Number and types of questions required per chapter, types of tags (Bloom’s and difficulty breakup levels), etc.
- Format consistency and distractor consistency.
- What a question should not have, such as “not” or “except” in question stems, giveaways, trivia, etc.
- Repetitive and weak distracters.
- Grammatical or phrasing accuracy.