Our Services

Quadterion offers a full range of services for creating and implementing a credentialing exam and program.

Practice/Job Task Analysis

Unlock Your Certification Potential: As the cornerstone for content validity, we ensure your certification program reflects the most relevant knowledge and skills by employing scientifically valid data collection and survey methods to reflect the most relevant knowledge and skills.

Define the core competencies necessary for your profession
Create a robust blueprint for exam development and ongoing competency assessments

Exam Development

Craft Industry-Leading Exams: Partner with Quadterion for end-to-end exam development services. Our expert team aligns content with the knowledge, skills and abilities required in your field.

Comprehensive support from item writing to testing administration strategies
Focus on compliance with NCCA and ISO 17024 accreditation standards
Ongoing reliability and decision consistency analyses

Item Development and Form Assembly

Build a Strong Exam Foundation: Our guided item writer workshops equip your team with the skills to create valid and reliable exam items. We are familiar with the construction of all item types, including technology-enhanced and performance items.

Collaborative training
Structured workflows
Evaluation of alignment with necessary knowledge and skills

Psychometric Services

Demonstrate Validity with Confidence: Quadterion’s psychometric services ensure your certification program meets rigorous accreditation standards by constructing the strongest validity argument so decisions about candidate certification are based on solid, defensible data.

Detailed documentation and reporting
Regular reports and a consultative approach
Practical guidance ranging from content representation to impact on score precision
Reliability studies to confirm that your exam consistently and accurately measures competency

Standard Setting

Establish Reliable Passing Standards: Our expertise in criterion-referenced methods helps you set fair and defensible passing scores.

Angoff or Bookmark methods to guide you through the standard-setting process
Certification decisions are backed by robust data and aligned to protect the public

Equating & Scaling of Scores

Ensure Score Comparability Across Exam Forms: 
Quadterion implements rigorous equating procedures to maintain comparability across different versions of your exam, ensuring that candidates receive comparable scores, regardless of the exam form or administration mode.

Techniques tailored to the needs of your program
Linear equating methods, item response theory methods and more