by David Smith, Customer Service Manager A: No. The reason for this is that you lose a lot of validity and standardization in your testing. It may seem reasonable that, since everyone is answering the same questions, one test would be just as difficult as another. Here’s an example of why this might not necessarily […]
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Platinum Secure Testing in EMSTesting & PlatinumTests
Platinum Educational Group has partnered with Respondus Lockdown Browser for secure online testing in EMSTesting & PlatinumTests. This feature launched in early March 2015 and is available to school instructors with their school subscription to EMSTesting and PlatinumTests. The Platinum Secure Testing feature gives Instructors the option to lockdown tests on a students computer or […]
Academic dishonesty?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO Our sales team is often approached with inquiries about how our websites prevent cheating. I am sorry, let me rephrase that question. How do we deal with academic dishonesty, cognitive knowledge testing trickery, or someone who takes an educational opportunity shortcut? For […]
Exciting News from the CEO!
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Doug Smith, CEO We are just finishing up our latest upgrades to Platinum Planner. You should see major positive changes in the reports section as well as an easier lab and opportunity creation and sign up process. We have instituted a Monday Webinar Update program […]
Q: What textbook are your questions based off of?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: Actually, our questions are not based off of any particular textbook. This is primarily due to the fact that publishers tend not to agree on where questions belong across the board(ex. Is this a Cardiology or a Pediatrics question?, Is […]
Q: Can I export EMSTesting.com questions into another learning management system?
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: Not easily. There are actually 2 reasons for this. One reason is test bank security. Once a question has been removed from our program, it is much harder to keep track of that question and ensure that the question does […]
Q: Can I modify a test after students have taken it? (EMSTesting.com)
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: No. Once a student has answered a question on a test online, the test cannot be modified again. This is because student results on a test are directly tied to the questions that they answered, and so modifying a test […]
Class Test Results, Individual Student Results and Class Detailed Results in EMSTesting.com
This article was published in our December 2014 Newsletter, by Tom Gottschalk, COO Many EMS teachers and program directors will seek out help from our customer service advocates around the time they need help defending their testing practices. In fact, I believe this is one of the main motivators for adopting our system for their […]
Q: Can I retake a test in EMSTesting.com and have the new results overwrite my original results?
This question was published in our September 2014 Newsletter by David Smith, Customer Advocate A: EMSTesting.com does not allow students to re-take a test and overwrite the original results; however the instructor can create a new test composed of the original questions and administer that for the students to take. The original test results will […]
Q: I bought an EMSTesting.com access card, but when I first log in after being accepted into the class the site is asking me to pay.
This question was published in our September 2014 Newsletter by David Smith, Customer Advocate Q: I bought an EMSTesting.com access card, but when I first log in after being accepted into the class the site is asking me to pay. A: Although a student may have purchased an access card for EMSTesting.com, the website does […]