AI-Enhanced, Cloud-Native Assessment Management Platform

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100% cloud-native, Lighthouse builds on eMetric’s proven high-stakes assessment delivery platform, iTester, and its flagship assessment data reporting and analytics platform, Data Interaction, to provide test providers in any industry the most flexible, robust, end-to-end assessment management solution available today.

Lighthouse offers flexible implementation options along with a full suite of modules for assessment development, administration, digital proctoring*, scoring, and reporting. It delivers a seamless and consistent experience to manage multiple assessment needs ranging from simple classroom scenarios to high-stakes accountability and certification programs. Lighthouse provides an easy, efficient, and transparent workflow for test providers to configure their assessment system with integrated management of test content, identity management, data management, and professional services.



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Why eMetric?

Robust and Reliable

Delivering an anxiety-free test-taking experience to all test takers is a responsibility we take very seriously. We designed our delivery platform to provide industry leading resilience to failure.

Intelligent

Modern AI capabilities detect student-test engagement, aberrant behavior in real-time, automatically score student responses, and predict student growth to help tailor instruction.

Ready for Any Scale

Leveraging our native-cloud microservices based architecture, we can cost-effectively cater to any program at any scale.

Standards Compliant

We offer the most comprehensive standards coverage across the platform encompassing systems, content, data, processes, and accessibility.

Robust and Reliable

Delivering large-scale assessment programs with a glitch-free track record for over a decade, doesn't happen by accident.

What makes our platform more robust and reliable than others?

Designed, Developed, and Tested for Failure

Delivering an anxiety-free test-taking experience to all test takers is a responsibility we take very seriously. We designed our test delivery platform to provide industry leading resilience to failure. Our technologies provide automated self-healing, retry, and circuit-breaking capabilities to tackle the problems of unreliable networks and scenarios that arise daily in schools and classrooms.

Automated, Rigorous Quality Control

We built specialized bots featuring state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods to continuously test our delivery platform. The AI/ML models utilize millions of click streams featuring real student test behavior. Our bots work 24/7 to find issues before they happen.

Tested for 2x Load and 5x Stress

We fine-tuned and hardened our platform, operations, and infrastructure to scale for the high-concurrency, thundering-herd, and flash-flood traffic problems of large-scale online test delivery. We routinely test for 2x the anticipated capacity of concurrent test takers during seasonal spikes and induce rigorous test taker activity ranging up to 5x real user activity to stress the system, sub-systems, and the underlying infrastructure components.

Geo-Redundant Cloud Hosting Infrastructure

No single component can guarantee 100% uptime and even the most expensive hardware eventually fails. That’s why we designed a regionally-redundant cloud infrastructure where individual components can fail without affecting the entire system.

Intelligent

We recognize the enormous potential for artificial intelligence to provide practical improvements in assessment delivery, scoring, and reporting.

Remaining true to our identity as a cutting-edge technology solution provider, we continue to enhance our solutions to provide meaningful insight into student learning.

Real-Time Test Engagement Detection

Powerful machine learning algorithms coupled with our real-time streaming analytics deliver insightful notifications regarding student-test engagement to proctors and test administrators.

Aberrant Test-Taking Behavior Detection

Standardized tests require the highest-level of integrity and security standards to ensure fairness and validity of the assessments. Early detection and prevention of abuse is critical to maintain validity and fairness to all test takers. We leverage state-of-the-art advances in AI/ML to detect aberrant test-taking performance and behavior.

Automated Scoring

We built state-of-the-art deep neural networks to score short answers and essays featuring models that require very little learning.

Predictive Analytics

We built a powerful regression-tree based approach to modeling student performance and have thoughtfully embedded these insights in an educator-friendly reporting and analytics platform. These insights are dynamic and are a valuable asset to cater instructional strategies and interventions to students and cohorts that are in need.

Ready for Any Scale

We didn’t just build an assessment system. We built a platform. Utilizing the latest advances in technology, our assessment management platform is capable of delivering different types of assessments (summative, interim, formative) in a variety of different modes (fixed form, adaptive) to a range of customers (district, small state, large state) — all from a single portal!

Summative Assessments

Our platform is the ultimate destination for administering custom large-scale high-stakes assessment programs. We have industry leading security, scalability, and reliability to meet the demanding needs of summative assessment programs. We can handle states of any size and assessment programs of any complexity.

Interim and Formative Assessments

Administering your interim or formative assessment programs has never been easier. Our state-of-the-art reporting and analytics platform in conjunction with the integrations available for instructional resources will make this your preferred choice for all your assessment management needs.

ELL and Special Education Assessments

The assessment platform has support for program specific workflows and support for tools (speech capture for spoken tests) that are unique to certain assessment programs such as ELL and Special Education assessment programs. These workflows and tool options are driven by configurations specific to the assessment programs selected for administration.

Standards Compliant

Our commitment to interoperability is a win-win strategy. We deliver vendor-neutral and standards-compliant solutions and enable our customers and partners to break free from vendor lock-in.

We have a remarkable track record of transitioning large-scale assessment programs from other vendors to our platform, quickly and painlessly.

Leading Support for Interoperability

We have invested in making our platforms open and interoperable with industry standards such as SIF, QTI, APIP, and OneRoster for test content and data systems and WAI-ARIA for accessibility. We also have a robust and open API ecosystem for integrating solutions and services from vendors and partners that enables us to ultimately offer an integrated and seamless experience to our customers.

Compliance and Compatibility that Works

We understand that a ‘one size fits all’ approach doesn’t always scale. Standards can have implementation gaps that require varying levels of customization. To address this, we built processes and tools that make this seamless and practical, while maintaining compatibility and compliance with standards.

Accessibility that Works for All

We have industry leading support for assistive technologies and comprehensive coverage of accessibility standards to ensure that our platform is accessible for all test takers. We support a broad range of assistive technologies and accessibility features including text-to-speech (multiple languages), Refreshable Braille, ASL, and screen readers.

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Our Customers

Oklahoma Oklahoma has used iTester for high-stakes summative testing since 2014. Tests with innovative technology enhanced items are authored, administered, automatically scored (except writing prompts), and reported within the single sign-on Oklahoma Portal.

Client Spotlight: Oklahoma