Services

We offer a full range of psychometric services in addition to comprehensive test development services.

Psychometric Services

Our psychometric team, comprised of psychometricians, data analysts, and software developers, offers extensive educational assessment experience and knowledge of best practices. Guided by the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014), our work is psychometrically sound and adheres to federal peer review requirements. We offer a full range of psychometric services, including:

• field test planning
• operational test design
• equating
• scaling
• classical item analysis
• IRT analysis
• differential item functioning analysis
• alignment studies
• reliability and validity analyses
• technical report production
• standard setting

Our psychometric team also designs, analyzes, and presents findings of wide-ranging psychometric research. See the research page for details.

Assessment Services

Item and Test Development Services

We offer comprehensive test development services for standards-based assessments. In addition to developing items and test forms that illuminate instruction, our capabilities include developing item and test specifications, performance and oral assessments, observation checklists, administration manuals, scoring criteria, and interpretation guides. Our test development staff spans content specialists, project directors, editors, graphic artists, and support staff, who are advised by our psychometric team.

Project and Program Management

MI believes in building and maintaining relationships with customers and employees alike through effective, honest, and ongoing communication. To this end, we employ a distributed leadership model—rather than a regimented, hierarchical structure—in which our project and program managers can lead proactively, make decisions independently, and guarantee we exceed client expectations. MI’s team of project and program managers has diverse knowledge around multiple aspects of assessment, including holding previous roles in scoring, test development, and psychometrics. In addition, some individuals also have prior classroom experience and hold graduate degrees or are PMP-certified. This expansive range of backgrounds has provided ample opportunities for several team members to work effectively on numerous state-wide programs. To promote continual growth and expand on their experience, MI’s project and program managers are supported by our program management office, which provides protocols, tools, feedback, and professional development. This approach ensures our project and program managers have both the skills and the resources necessary to consistently meet client needs. Finally, we recognize that all projects are dynamic and that they can require give and take when leading many aspects of successful program management.

Document Production, Distribution, Receipt, and Storage

MI is capable of producing millions of test booklets annually. In addition to our in-house digital printing equipment, we maintain relationships with several local printers.

We have developed a proprietary Order-Pack-Ship (OPS) application used to scan and track test materials. In addition to allowing us to efficiently manage the selection and shipping of orders, our OPS system is built around extensive quality control procedures to ensure that the correct numbers and types of materials are shipped to schools and districts.

We have similarly developed a sophisticated internal tracking system used for logging and processing all materials returned from the field. This system is capable of locating individual test documents at any time they are in our possession.

We maintain a host of high-volume scanners and imaging equipment and use several time-tested processes that ensure all necessary precautions are taken during scanner and document setup, scanner calibration, data validation, and data export. We utilize a double-blind data correction process to achieve the most accurate reporting of student information and test results.

In addition to secure electronic delivery of assessment results, we are capable of producing reports in-house—using a variety of high-speed printers—and shipping to schools or districts.