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Pearson VUE Test delivery in more than 5,000 test centers in more than 175 countries

Pearson VUE Test delivery in more than 5,000 test centers in more than 175 countries. Athena. A test driver A philosophy of configurability Separation of responsibilities Provides interfaces for customization. An organizational model of test delivery responsibilities. Selection and

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Pearson VUE Test delivery in more than 5,000 test centers in more than 175 countries

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  1. Pearson VUETest delivery in more than 5,000 test centers in more than 175 countries

  2. Athena • A test driver • A philosophy of configurability • Separation of responsibilities • Provides interfaces for customization

  3. An organizational model oftest delivery responsibilities Selection and Ordering Navigation Rules and Tools Result Data Evaluation Presentation configurability

  4. An illustration….

  5. External ItemsSometimes, when there is some specific test item functionality that Athena does not offer natively, a testing program may choose to build an “external item” in order to deliver the needed functionality

  6. How does it work? • External (“pluggable items”) • Two APIs • COM technologies • Flash • The item software is called into use by the test driver during delivery • Items need to be “well behaved” relative to the responsibilities of test driver • Each pluggable item is rigorously tested in coordination with the test driver Native • Specification in QTI - Open standard with extensions • Support for multiple formats of text, graphics, and media • Highly configurable layout

  7. Considerations for innovative items (native and external) • Performance • Resources needed by the items • Deployment (delivery channels) • Data produced by the item • Item robustness in exception cases • Time out • Power out • Abandonment / candidate “misuse” • Ability to be used during a rescore process • Accessibility and assistive technologies

  8. Near term future • Athena: Browser Edition • Internet based testing (IBT) test driver • Athena desktop as reference implementation • New external item interface • HTML/HTML5, css, javascript technologies • No COM, no Flash • Looking forward to expanded delivery models • New models: Anywhere Proctored, Remote Proctored • New devices: mobile, tablets and “byod”

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