CertMetrics™ Credential and Data Management


Programs using CertMetrics™ reap the benefits one would expect from a best-in-class credential management system as well as those of an innovative, best-in-class psychometric tool that delivers reports based upon appropriate psychometric analyses, provides proactive security monitoring, and enables responsible score reporting. Powered by Alpine Testing Solutions' commitment to understand customer needs and provide exceptional service, CertMetrics™ is tailored to meet your specific needs rather than expecting you to fit our solution.

CertMetrics™
makes credential programs more efficient by automating labor-intensive tasks including:
  • Managing and synchronizing data from multiple sources and vendors
  • Scrubbing data and correcting common errors or flagging issues for additional research
  • Storing and organizing program, credential, exam, and candidate data
  • Performing automated merges based on client specific rules and requirements
  • Tracking candidate progress against eligibility requirements, credential requirements, and credential-maintenance requirements (e.g. continuing education, update tests, etc.)
  • Supporting candidate enrollment, online agreements, and fee collection
  • Queuing and tracking fulfillment
  • Providing candidates access to view their exam history and track their progress in earning and maintaining their credentials
  • Automating personalized candidate communications based on key milestones and triggers within a candidate’s credential lifecycle
 CertMetrics™ provides organizations the flexibility to have a customized solution tailored to their needs by:
  • Enabling each organization to determine which features and functionality it will use
  • Providing each organization with its own CertMetrics™  instance that is skinned to meet its branding strategies
  • Providing a localization toolset which enables each organization to customize all of its candidate-facing website and email text in English and then translate it to other languages
  • Developing customized PDF certificates and score reports
  • Storing and reporting on custom, organization-specific data fields
  • Building and implementing custom dashboards and report templates
  • Offering robust credential management processing to fit even the most complex credential logic requirements (e.g. candidate applications, eligibility, credential renewal and recertification, credential hierarchies, continuing education support, etc.)
CertMetrics™ enables organizations to monitor their programs and make informed decisions with minimal effort by providing:
  • Standard and custom dashboards
  • Standard and custom certification reports
  • Standard and custom candidate demographic reports
  • Standard and custom exam reports
  • Standard and custom fulfillment reports
  • Standard and custom report automation (i.e.automate reports to run and be distributed daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually)
  
Innovative Psychometric Functionality
 
CertMetrics™ provides psychometric reports based on appropriate analyses. 
  • CertMetrics™ enables programs to record information about each test that is essential to running appropriate psychometric analyses
  • CertMetrics™ supports item/task- and form-level reports for tests using dichotomous and/or polytomous scoring
  • CertMetrics™ supports item/task- and form-level reports for tests using traditional, innovative, and performance items and/or tasks
CertMetrics™ Security Module offers automated data forensics and policy violation detection to preserve exam and credential integrity.
  • CertMetrics™ Security Module uses a series of security scripts customized to the credential program and its exams to detect policy violations, data anomalies, and security infractions before applying test results to credential logic
  • CertMetrics™ Security Module tracks all violations for reporting purposes
  • CertMetrics™ Security Module allows organizations to automate responses to each infraction (e.g. send a warning email, place an exam on hold for review, automatically invalidate an exam, etc.)
  • CertMetrics™ Security Module provides the tools needed to manually research security issues and take appropriate action (e.g. invalidate an exam, ban a candidate, etc.)
  • CertMetrics™ Security Module allows organizations to proactively monitor the performance of their Test Delivery Provider(s)
CertMetrics™ Exam Scoring Module protects an organization’s Intellectual Property (IP) by minimizing distribution of the test key.
  • CertMetrics™ Exam Scoring Module scores exams in CertMetrics™ rather than at the test delivery provider
  • CertMetrics™ Exam Scoring Module automatically notifies candidates when their custom PDF score report is ready for download
  • CertMetrics™ Exam Scoring Module protects the exam content of removing the need to distribute the test key to the delivery provider
  • CertMetrics™ Exam Scoring Module combined with CertMetrics™ Security Module provides the highest degree of security and monitoring to safeguard the integrity of your exams and credentials