Custom Assessments
Measure the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are essential to your institution through innovative assessments that meet your specific needs and goals.
Measure What Matters to Your Organization
For more than 20 years, CAE has collaborated with educational organizations throughout the United States and around the world to design, develop, and deliver assessments to help improve students’ academic and career outcomes.
Our team includes assessment experts, content specialists, graphic artists, and copy editors. Our team has undergone intensive training in issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
CAE has developed tens of thousands of assessment items that are standards-, curriculum- and/or skills-aligned.
We have developed items in all formats and in a wide range of content areas for K–20.
We have developed high-quality stimulus material, both authentic and commissioned, including written passages, graphics, data sets, and media, and we have authored assessments in many platforms.
We have specific expertise in measuring hard-to-measure skills such as critical thinking and problem solving through authentic assessments.
Our Custom Assessment Services Include:
- Assessment development
- Facilitation of content & bias and sensitivity reviews
- Creation of administration & scoring guides
- Translation & adaptation
- Assessment program design
- Creation of frameworks & blueprints
- Data strategy & report design
- Program management
- Psychometric services
- Standard setting & range finding
- Statistical analyses & reporting
- Assessment delivery
- Assessment technology consulting
- AI scoring & automated student reporting
- Faculty development for curriculum integration
- Effective use of assessment data for instruction
A Look at Some of Our Sample Projects
CAE has worked with higher education and K–12 organizations and agencies from around the world, including the OECD and the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland, to design and implement small- and large-scale assessment programs.
Performance-Based Periodic Assessment Development
2015–Present
For over a decade, CAE has developed custom performance-based assessments for the New York City Public Schools Office of Periodic Assessment. These standards-based assessments are designed for formative classroom use in grades K–12 and have been translated into the nine official languages of NYCPS. Performance task assessments have been developed for a variety of subjects, including:
- Humanities: ELA Fiction/Nonfiction, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts
- STEM: Earth Science, Chemistry, Physics, Algebra and Geometry
The assessments are designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their higher-order skills along with their content knowledge. CAE also develops scoring guides and related teacher materials.
Read more about CAE’s partnership with NYCPS:
Sample Performance Task for NYCPS
New York City Is Sinking — Part D: Finding Solutions
New York City has 64 locations that need flood protection, and each has several possible solutions. Solutions may be structural, non-structural, or nature-based, with some on land and some in the water. Structural solutions are building projects such as seawalls, flood gates, more efficient storm drains, and moveable or temporary barriers. Non-structural solutions might include early warning systems or better wetland management. Nature-based ideas include seeding oyster reefs, increasing plant cover on beaches and in marshes, and restoring natural wetlands.
Question 4: Consider one of the three sites on the map in Picture 8 and explain why one of the structural solutions to a sinking NYC would work best in that location.
(Example from a 2023 NCSA session)
Multiyear Partnership With Project Lead The Way
2023–2028
Collaboration will bring innovative assessments and insights to hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and administrators in classrooms across the U.S.
Illinois Summative Assessment
October 2020–June 2023
CAE developed items, tasks, and passages and constructed test forms using New Meridian’s item banking platform for the Illinois Assessment of Readiness ELA/Literacy summative assessment for grades 3–8.
Have knowledge, skills, or abilities that you need to authentically measure? Want to learn more about how CAE can create custom assessments tailored to the needs of your students, faculty and administrators?