New technical cooperation will facilitate badge sharing between industry-leading platforms.
Alpine Testing Solutions, Inc., a leader in psychometric services, test development, and credential management technology, announced a strategic partnership between its CertMetrics™ Credential Management Technology and Pearson’s digital professional recognition platform, Acclaim.
The Alpine-Acclaim strategic partnership is a direct response to market demand and will facilitate the creation and dissemination of badges while increasing the value that these badges represent. “This partnership makes perfect sense,” said Blair Harris, Vice President of Technology for Alpine. “CertMetrics is an intuitive candidate management technology that makes it easy for testing programs to manage candidates and their training, achievements, exams, and credential data. With the Alpine-Acclaim partnership, this data can now be leveraged by Acclaim to create the appropriate badges for candidates to access and self-manage within the well-established Acclaim badge repository. Acclaim is a great platform for those badges to receive broader distribution and has a host of other tools and services for its users to leverage.” Harris added, “The clients we share with Acclaim will also access the Acclaim badging tool platform directly from CertMetrics providing a higher likelihood of candidates sharing their badges for their own benefit and that of the badge sponsor.”
“In order for credentialing programs to create, manage, and fully realize the value of badging technology, an integrated strategy is required with platforms like CertMetrics which manages the rules and requirements to produce trusted, accurate information. Acclaim can then consume this information to create and disseminate badges in an interoperable format,” added Jarin Schmidt, Director, Acclaim Services for Pearson VUE. “Through this partnership, candidates have more control over where and when their credentials appear online and gain access to real-time employer demand, all while credential programs improve brand reach and overall analytics. This strategic partnership will add great value to our shared clients and continue the momentum around badging technology.”
The full technical integration is scheduled to be available in Q2 this year.
For additional information please visit: https://www.alpinetesting.com/certmetrics/ and https://home.pearsonvue.com/About-Pearson-VUE/Discover-Pearson-VUE/Pearson-VUE-businesses/Acclaim.aspx
About Alpine Testing Solutions
Alpine Testing Solutions (Alpine) provides program design, test development, psychometric consultation, analysis, and technology solutions services for licensure, professional certification, and educational testing programs. Alpine focuses on applying industry standards and best practices resulting in practical solutions that enable test sponsors to build, maintain, and continuously improve testing programs. Our staff specializes in psychometric consultation in the context of applicable policy and program design, evaluating and auditing programs, developing validation frameworks, conducting test development and validation projects (e.g., job analysis, blueprint development, item development, item and form analysis, standard setting, equating, security analysis), and technology services for credential management (e.g., eligibility, maintenance) of small- and large-scale testing programs.
About Acclaim
Acclaim is a world-class professional digital recognition platform backed by Pearson, the world’s learning company. Using digital badging technology, we help individuals move forward in their careers through managing, sharing and verifying professional achievements that directly connect to career opportunities across the world. For more, visit www.youracclaim.com
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