Build Tests That Matter
Laying the foundation for fair, focused, and effective assessments.
Strategic Exam Development Framework
Create effective assessments using a structured, research-based process define goals, collaborate with experts, validate with surveys, and build exam blueprints with integrated project management tools.
Test Plan Goal Setting
Define the purpose of your exam and align it with organizational goals. Whether it's certification, licensure, or employee development, a strong plan guides every step ahead. Set up Project Management based Gantt Chart or Agile board that comes already integrated.
Gather Subject Matter Experts
Collaborate with industry professionals who understand the job inside out. Their insights ensure the analysis reflects the actual role and responsibilities. Create surveys using in-built tools and enable integrated video calling for secure content collaboration.
Generate Task Statements
Detailed task statements describe what’s done on the job, how it’s done, and why. This helps us capture both routine and critical responsibilities.
Validate with a Survey
Send surveys to a wider professional audience. Their feedback confirms which tasks are most important, frequent, and critical to job performance.
Analyze and Create Exam Blueprint
Use survey results to develop a blueprint that defines content areas, establishes weights, and specifies the number of questions, ensuring exams align with real-world job requirements.
Build the Assessment
Design an exam that truly measures what matters. Craft high-quality, job-relevant questions that align with real tasks and competencies, ensuring the final assessment reflects the role's true demands.
Scale with security.
Job Task Analysis is audited and certified by industry-leading third party standards.
FAQs
Job Task Analysis is the process of breaking down a job into specific tasks and responsibilities to understand what people actually do at work. It's the foundation for creating fair tests that measure real job skills rather than just book knowledge. Without it, your certification or licensing exam could be challenged as irrelevant or biased, and you won't have evidence to prove it tests what matters for the job.
Our structured 6-step process guides you through everything:
- Define your exam goals,
- Gather subject matter experts,
- Generate detailed task statements,
- Survey professionals to validate tasks,
- Analyze results to create exam blueprints, and
- Build the actual assessment. The timeline varies, but most organizations complete the analysis in 3-6 months. Our integrated project management tools (Gantt charts and Agile boards) help keep everything on track.
Yes, you identify the experts, but our platform makes collaboration easy. We provide built-in survey tools, secure video calling for content discussions, and collaborative workspaces where experts can work together remotely. You'll typically need 8-12 practitioners who understand the job well, plus we help you survey a broader audience (50+ professionals) to validate the findings.
Our process follows established professional standards and creates comprehensive documentation at every step. We track expert participation, survey responses, statistical analyses, and decision rationales. The platform generates detailed reports showing how your exam blueprint connects to actual job requirements. This evidence package helps protect you if your certification or licensing requirements are legally challenged.
You receive a complete exam blueprint that specifies content areas, question weights, and the number of items needed for each topic. This blueprint becomes the foundation for creating job-relevant test questions. The platform seamlessly connects to our Edison Assessments system, so you can move directly from analysis to building and delivering your certification or licensing exam - all in one integrated solution.
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