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SPONSOR SESSION: Innovation and the AI revolution in the assessment industry

4 March | 3pm

Hosted by Surpass Assessment’s John Dight and John Turner, come along to discuss the recent changes in the assessment industry with our team. See a showcase of the latest features and integrated services for the Surpass Assessment Platform, all designed to benefit your SMEs and test developers, through modernized technology that gives you the security and control you need in your assessment program.

Through demonstrations, learn how Surpass provides an innovative and powerful combination of tools for managing your Subject Matter Experts’ activity, including extensive item writing, reviewing and standard setting task management functionality, in an SME-friendly User Interface.

Learn how Surpass offers self-publishing to the Surpass test driver, with a secure browser offering offline resilience for high-stakes exams, as well as publishing to other vendors and test drivers.

Discover how Surpass Community members can tailor the Surpass platform to the needs and requirements of their examinations. In addition, learn how our Copilot Advisory Board help steer the direction of Surpass Copilot, our assistive AI feature-set.

Hear more about what Surpass has been working on and how we have been innovating new concepts for the assessment industry, including Surpass Copilot, which helps item writers efficiently create distractors for Multiple Choice Question items.

Take advantage of our unique network of partnerships with industry leaders in test development, on-demand and event-based exams, multi-modal test delivery and psychometrics – all working together to create your perfect ‘turnkey’ assessment solution.

Speakers:

John Dight
John Turner

Surpass Assessment

Innovation Demonstration: Generative AI – We all need a Copilot

4 March | 12.15pm

With the explosive and transformational impact of generative AI in late 2022 on the education and assessment industry, our sector has been grappling with how we can harness the power of this new technology, while remaining cautious of its inherent risks and issues

For this innovations demo, we would like to demonstrate our latest innovation that marries the experience of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with the speed, efficiency, and innovation of generative AI. Our initial release of ‘Copilot’ works in perfect harmony with SMEs, augmenting their expertise and knowledge, while effortlessly generating high-quality distractors, and the rationale for each one. By automating this aspect of test development, SMEs will be able to allocate more of their time and expertise to other crucial tasks, such as item review and content validation

Our AI-powered toolset works alongside your SMEs and ensures the highest standards of data security, transforming the way you author test items and saving time (and money) throughout the process, without any loss of quality.

What makes our ‘Copilot’ offering unique in the industry is it is a community-driven initiative with initial features and subsequent development roadmap decided by our Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Come and join our innovation demonstration, learn more about how we “embrace with caution” the power and potential of generative AI, and find out how you can help drive the future of assessment.

Speakers:

Emma Hall
Surpass Assessment

Multi-vendor partnerships: Better together

5 March| 9.40am

Certification and licensure boards have a myriad of options when it comes to choosing vendors in support of their examinations. These sponsor organizations can choose to work with one vendor or select multiple vendors with which to work. There are pros and cons to each solution, and no one solution is the right one for everyone. This session will uncover some of the benefits of working with multiple partners, each specializing in one or just a couple aspects of the assessment solution. We will also cover potential drawbacks of a multi-vendor arrangement and suggest ways in which to mitigate those. Additionally, we will touch on the potential challenges of switching vendors and some of the mitigation strategies to eliminate or lessen the impact of that change.

We expect the audience to come away from the session with a more comprehensive perspective on multi-vendor solutions, where organizations share solutions, embrace change, and are better together for it.

Speakers:

Samantha Sappington
Data Recognition Corporation (DRC)

MaryBeth Kurland
Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC)

Tracey Hembry
Alpine Testing Solutions

Anne Richard
National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC)

Jim Crawford
Surpass Assessment