International Standards and Assessment

AIR offers expert services in all stages of test development, administration, analysis, and reporting:

• Articulation of learning standards aligned with curriculum
  • Formulating standards for student competencies in literacy, numeracy, science, and other key subjects
  • Defining standards for conditions for learning
• Development of tools for holistic assessment
  • Assessment frameworks, test blueprints, item specifications
  • Item writing workshops: training on quality criteria for item writing and reviewing, item writing process, and peer-to-peer item reviews
  • Item content reviews by committee independent from item writing participants
  • Item Banking to effectively manage item development and test construction process
  • Assembly of pilot forms: separate or embedded items pilot design.
  • Pilot data analysis: generating psychometric indices of item quality
  • Item data review: using both item statistics and content to evaluate quality of items
  • Construct operational test forms that are technically sound, non-discriminatory for student groups, and horizontally and vertically comparable
• Test administration:
  • Sampling designs
  • Test administration manuals and ancillary materials
  • Test security and data forensics
  • Data acquisition and machine and human scoring
• Data analysis:
  • Equating and scaling: making scores comparable across test forms administered in different occasions and placing them onto the final reporting scale
  • Comparison of student performance across different groups, e.g., by gender, urban/rural locality, school types, geographical regions, etc.
  • Analysis of background factors associated with student performance
• Setting performance standards:
  • Developing conceptual definitions of performance levels
  • Setting cut scores on assessment scale that delineate performance levels
• Creation and dissemination of reports
  • Reports for students’ promotion or admission purposes
  • Reports for institutional and system evaluation (school, district, regional, or national performance)
  • Reports to support instruction and individual learning
  • Co-interpretational workshops and reports to inform policy decisions
  • Data visualizations and online interactive dashboards
• Capacity building
  • Training for all stages of assessment cycle
  • Support to establishing and managing assessment institutions

ASSESSMENT CYCLE

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