Have you been mandated to create a licensure test but do not know where to start? Does your organization offer a certificate of completion test that you would like to expand to a formal certification? Assessment Systems Corporation can help you address such daunting tasks and create a defensible, reliable examination tailored to your purposes, needs, and budget, while maintaining the highest professional psychometric standards.

Formal development of defensible exams is not a linear process, but rather a cycle that requires planning ahead more than one revolution. For example, it is common to include extra items on a test that are not scored; these "pretest" items will have statistics calculated to be used in future evaluation and inclusion on new test forms. The validity of a test is supported, in large part, by the strength of the connections between the different steps of the cycle. A broad example of this cycle is below.