Surpass pre-release webinar for 12.33
The Surpass team explain the new features and updates in the 12.33 release.
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Surpass is a professional and market-leading end-to-end assessment platform.
Trusted by the world’s most respected awarding organizations, test publishers, institutions, and national government bodies, Surpass allows you to efficiently create and validate tests ready for secure delivery across multiple platforms.
Surpass is used for the authoring of items, item banking, test administration, test delivery, and reporting of computer and paper-based tests. It is the first choice for organizations that need a dependable solution for high-stakes formative and summative testing, with the support of a dedicated and experienced customer service team. You can also combine the Surpass platform with our range of Test Development and Test Delivery services.
Find out why organizations across a range of industries choose Surpass for their assessment program.
New to the assessment industry, or trying to make sense of new terms and technologies? Read our list of Frequently Asked Questions.
End-to-End Software
Recent Feature Updates
Item Banking & Authoring
Item authoring has never been easier. Surpass streamlines processes, regardless of the size and location of your SME team. Surpass provides an impressive range of item types, which are all intuitive to set up with the ability to configure test presentation to your brand specification.
Intelligent task management
Surpass enables proactive rather than reactive production, giving detailed information for planning and monitoring item production progress.
Configurable workflow
Surpass can be tailored to support your team’s workflow with assignable roles and permissions for item access and editing, giving you complete control of the whole authoring process.
Easy item import and export
Surpass supports multiple approaches to adding and sharing items, including industry standard CSV, QTI, and API methods.
Ready-to-use advanced item types
A wide range of standard and advanced items are available to use within Surpass, from Multiple Choice questions to more sophisticated item types such as Voice Capture, Spreadsheet, and File Attach.
Clean and focused content presentation
Surpass provides a flexible approach to content presentation, including options to brand tests, control the layout of the candidate experience, and group items into sets.
Media-rich content including images and videos
Our diagram creation tool and award-winning High-Fidelity Image Viewer allow you to make the most of digital testing with rich audiovisual media.
Need help identifying which skills to test, and the best way to test them?
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Test Assembly
Trusted by the world’s most respected awarding organizations, test publishers, institutions, and national government bodies, Surpass allows you to efficiently create and validate tests ready for secure delivery across multiple platforms.
Built on blueprint specifications
Surpass provides the tools to generate tests with the requirements found from your task analysis.
Configurable metadata
With a comprehensive range of metadata types and options for filtering and updating a large number of items, Surpass enables assembly for a data-rich item bank structure.
Fixed, random & adaptive form testing
Whether you’re taking a traditional fixed form approach, randomizing test content or want to create a truly personalized experience with adaptive testing, Surpass helps you assemble the right test with ease.
Looking to convert your existing paper-based exam for computer-based delivery?
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Secure Multi-Device & Paper Test Delivery
With intuitive ‘author once – deliver to many’ functionality you can deliver the same item in multiple robust and secure formats including computers, tablets, and paper.
A variety of on-screen testing capabilities
Make the most of every testing opportunity by creating items once and delivering them using a variety of methods, such as on computers, tablets, and paper.
Multiple language support
Multilingual support in Surpass allows problem-free authoring and delivery of tests for national and international assessment programs.
Continue testing, even without a stable internet connection
With robust offline delivery options, Surpass overcomes the instabilities of internet connectivity regardless of the testing location.
Secure lock-down environment
Protect your items and block access to blacklisted third-party applications by locking down delivery with encryption and additional security features on both center and BYOD devices.
Looking to deliver your tests remotely or through a center?
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Adaptive and Personalized Testing
Surpass contains innovative technology to help you get the most from every item you create, ensuring the best possible ROI. Whether that’s maximizing the potential of your item bank or adapting a test to each candidate’s ability in real-time to get the most accurate results data.
Adaptive delivery
For when you need a holistic view of an individual’s ability, not just a pass/fail, the technology behind Surpass Computer Adaptive Testing is perfect for providing personalized performance data for all candidates, not just those in the middle range.
LOFT delivery
Whether you’re investigating LOFT for the first time, or looking for a new system to help you get the most from your testing program, the Surpass team are happy to help .
Optimized form generation
How do you know that every item in your question bank is being used to its full potential, while maintaining test fairness and security? Advanced Linear Optimization technology built into the Surpass user interface allows you to easily analyze and create optimized test forms, at breath-taking speed, with absolute confidence.
Discover how Surpass is pioneering Computer Adaptive Testing to improve a national testing program.
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Scoring and Feedback
Whether your organization requires onscreen human scoring or wants to automate grading, smart scoring tools in Surpass can accommodate your needs. You can also easily manage candidate results in Surpass, including the production of thorough score reports.
Automatically award scores to candidates
Surpass supports the scoring of candidate responses via automatic computer-based grading or tools for the on-screen grading of open responses.
Detailed feedback and reporting
You can choose to provide a range of feedback types, either as candidate feedback or within comprehensive assessment reports.
Psychometric Reporting
Surpass provides you with all the psychometric data and tools you need to have the confidence that the tests you’re delivering are reliable and valid. In addition to in-product functionality, we can give you access to expert psychometricians who can help validate your processes and get the most from the data available.
Data analytics and reporting
Surpass provides a range of psychometric reports and item statistics including Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) to help you ensure all tests are reliable, defensible, fair, and cost-effective.
Statistics to monitor validity
Surpass provides raw data plus a range of automated reports at the click of a button, essential for ensuring the validity of any assessment program.
Let our experts help you analyze the data, to give you extra confidence in the validity of your tests.
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Integration & QTI
Modern API (Application Program Interface) integration is central to every professional IT solution. The extensive range of API resources in Surpass improve data synchronization and significantly reduce the risk of human error.
Accommodate for one master system
Surpass features a range of modern integration methods, connecting assessment tools to multiple services and data sources as part of a business-wide system.
Reduce manual input with bulk migration
Many customers migrate their data to Surpass using the range of purpose-built tools and services in the system, making this task efficient and accurate.
Extract important results and item data
Surpass provides a range of data analysis tools with additional API options to connect to other third-party services.
Need to integrate even further to meet your specific requirements?
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