:: FAQ's

Q) Why organizations and individuals need skills certifications?

A) Some of the major factors that highlight the significance of online certifications and assessments are as follows:

• Easily verifiable
  
• Widely accepted
  
• Security
  
• Convenience
  
• Cost effective
  
• Diversified areas
  
• Current
• Credible
  
• Measurable

Q) What is Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)?

A) As test-takers respond to "questions", a computer-adaptive test "adapts" itself to test-takers by selecting the next item to be presented on the basis of performance on preceding items.

Q) Why is Computer Adaptive Testing better than normal testing?

A) The advantages of Computer Adaptive Testing include:

• CAT requires fewer test items to arrive at a more accurate estimate of test-takers' proficiency than pencil-and-paper tests.
  
• CAT allows test-takers to receive immediate feedback on their performance.
• Each test-taker is administered a different set of test questions enhancing the test's security.
• CAT scoring takes into account not just the number of questions answered correctly, but which items were answered correctly.

A test-taker who correctly answers a more difficult set of questions will score higher than a test-taker who correctly answers an easier set of questions.

Q) What are the advantages that we get through Skillcerts?

A) Skillcerts provides an organism towards better-managed assessments and certifications system that will:

• Perk up hiring accomplishment
  
• Optimize performance
  
• Distinguish skills assets
  
• Augment skills accountability
  
• Achievement recognition
  
• Skills data of knowledge workers for more informed decisions
  
• Recognize improvement areas
  
• Targeted specialization
  
• Better allocation of resources
  
• Easy to deploy at organizations micro or macro level
  
• Different areas of tests from single source
• Access database of pre-qualified professionals
  
• Secure, web-based and password-protected access

All the above-mentioned features facilitate organizational skills inventory management. Believe it or not IT'S ALL FOR FREE.

Q) How can we conquer employee hesitation about assessments?

A) Management can play a key role in transmitting the fact to the employees that the basic idea behind the testing and assessment is to keep employees informed. Through Skills measurement organization will help employees validate their knowledge, improve their performance, and achieve recognition. This overall process will facilitate the organization to implement the key roles mentioned below on merit basis:

• Recruitment
• Selection
• Training and development
• Motivation
  
• Evaluation

Q) What are Skillcerts assessments like?

A) Skillcerts tests consist of multiple-choice questions. The questions are designed to test real world knowledge, as opposed to academic or "book" knowledge. You can expect to see sample code, images and scenarios associated with many of the items. Each question has one and only one correct answer. The tests do not penalize for guessing, so individuals are encouraged to make educated guesses in situations where there is uncertainty as to which answer is correct.
The actual test duration is 30 minutes with a pass percentage of 75%. You will be receiving questions of the test till its duration ends. Each question has its timeout, which will be displayed at the bottom of page. If time expires on any question, that question will be scored as incorrect and the system will move on to the next question. You will not be permitted to add or change an answer to a question once you have run out of time. It is important that you take the assessment without interruptions, distractions, or disconnections because it could affect your results.
Skillcerts assessments are developed, validated, and reviewed by professionals in each skills area. Skillcerts tests are delivered as Computer Adaptive Tests (CAT). The difficulty level of the items is adjusted according to the skill level of the test taker who is further facilitated before beginning the test with provided levels of:

• Beginner
• Middle
• Senior

This process collectively provides two major advantages:

• Redundancy of questions that are too difficult or too easy for the test taker particular skill level
• The adaptive test engine produces scores that are reflective of the number of questions answered correctly and the difficulty level of those questions. In this way the true ability of the test-taker can be more effectively assessed.