Test Development

Industry Acclaimed

CASTLE Worldwide, Inc., has built an excellent reputation for the development of high-stakes examinations and practice tests. For fields ranging from engineering to medical technology to physical fitness, we develop tests for the certification or licensure of professionals, to assess the knowledge and skills of employees for training purposes, or as a pre-employment check for potential hires.

Examination Development

Putting together a valid, accurate, and legally defensible examination is a painstaking process. We've worked hard to hone our skills across the gamut of steps involved, including:

• Job/task analysis and role delineation studies
• Survey design and development
• Development of test specifications
• Workshops in:
• Item writing
• Examination assembly
• Standard setting/passing point determination
• Content validation studies
• Editorial and psychometric review of items
• Computerized item banking and examination production
• Proctor/rater training programs
• Development of candidate handouts and study guides
• Examination printing
• Certificate design

Practice Test Development

Practice tests are designed to help prepare candidates for certification or licensure examinations. We build them to the same specifications as the actual examinations in order to give users exposure to examination formats and the types of questions that will be included.

Practice tests often simply provide a candidate with a score of right and wrong answers. However, at CASTLE we can also design tests that provide diagnostic or predictive feedback.

Diagnostic feedback provides candidates with reports displaying both their strong and weak areas of knowledge.

Predictive feedback compares the results of practice tests to the results of the actual examination. It enables us to predict, based on a candidate's score on the practice test, how well he or she will score on the actual examination.