Measurement Incorporated - North Carolina

About

Measurement Incorporated (MI) is an employee-owned corporation and leading provider of customized educational assessment services for state governments, other testing companies, and various organizations. Since its founding, MI continues to uphold its reputation as an industry leader in providing performance assessment scoring services, automated essay scoring services, developing assessment methodologies, and providing innovative solutions for all testing needs. In addition to our company headquarters in Durham, NC, MI maintains operations at 14 office locations in nine states and employs a full-time staff of almost 400 in addition to thousands of seasonal employees who assist in assessment scoring, test item development, and materials handling.

Courses/Programs offered

Project Essay Grade (PEG®) MI has been an active force in AI scoring, also known as automated essay scoring. PEG is the industry's most researched AI system and has been used by MI to provide over two million scores to students over the past five years. PEG is currently being used by one state as the sole scoring method on the state summative writing assessment, and we have conducted pilot studies with three other states. In addition, PEG is currently being used in 1,000 schools and 3,000 public libraries as a formative assessment tool. Using advanced, proven statistical techniques, PEG analyzes written prose, calculates more than 300 measures that reflect the intrinsic characteristics of writing (fluency, diction, grammar, construction, etc.), and achieves results that are comparable to the human scorers in terms of reliability and validity. MI Write : MI Write is a web-based learning environment and formative assessment system that allows students to improve their writing through frequent practice and guided instructional support. Available anywhere, on any device, MI Write combines more opportunities to write with immediate scoring and feedback to help students develop effective writing skills. MI Tutor : MI Tutor is a cloud-based formative assessment practice writing tool for higher education that allows students to submit an essay and get immediate feedback based on the Six Traits of Writing. Available anytime, anywhere, MI Tutor provides instant, accurate feedback on submitted essays, enabling students to take ownership of the writing process. MI Tutor is designed to help adult learners focus on writing development that applies to all topics and genres of college- and career-level writing.

Online Testing and Development MI’s browser-based, platform independent test delivery system is built to meet the security, reliability, and interoperability demands of today’s online testing environments. Technology Enhanced Items : We also create technology-enhanced (TE) items that offer test takers new or alternate ways of solving problems and answering questions. Technology-enhanced items contain specialized interactions which collect evidence of student understanding of curricular standards beyond what is seen within traditional selected-response (typically multiple-choice items) in a unique and effective ways. We work effectively with our clients to determine what can be learned about students with technology-enhanced items that cannot be learned with other types of items. MI’s content professionals continue to push boundaries with innovative and technology-enhanced item types as they create items and tasks that are closely aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Our TE items feature animation, video, audio, various interactions and more. TE items can be developed for any subject area: English Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies.

Project Essay Grade (PEG®) Online Testing and Development Mathematics English Language Arts Social Studies Science