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 program design
- Creation of frameworks & blueprints
- Assessment development
- Facilitation of content and bias & sensitivity reviews
- Creation of administration and scoring guides
- Psychometric services
- Standard setting & range finding
- Data strategy & report design
- Translation & adaptation
- Assessment delivery
- AI scoring & automated student reporting
- Statistical analyses & reporting
- Assessment technology consulting
- Professional development
- Program management
Consulting
Design
Professional Development
Administration
Psychometrics
Reporting & Analysis
Translation & Adaptation
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.
Illinois Summative Assessment
October 2020–June 2023
CAE develops items, tasks, and passages and constructs test forms using New Meridian’s item banking platform for the Illinois Assessment of Readiness ELA/Literacy summative assessment for grades 3–8.
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.
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:
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?