Guidebook
The SmartItem is a simple but significant innovation that yields unstealable tests that last virtually forever.
The testing industry currently faces some serious challenges. Rampant fraud, the effects of testwiseness, and an uneven and often unfair playing field. SmartItems are the solution—and Scorpion is the only online testing tool that supports it.
One well-designed SmartItem can render in thousands—even millions—of ways. Select variables change in real time within Scorpion while the item presents different versions of itself to each test taker.
With so many renderings of each question, examinees can no longer cheat by sharing content, buying questions and answers, or asking a friend to take the test and share what they saw.
Well, technically it can, but it won’t matter. A SmartItem covers the entire breadth and depth of a skill and renders differently to each test taker. So memorizing a SmartItem answer key would benefit no one, pulling the rug out from under cheaters and brain-dump sites.
A SmartItem goes a long way to enhance the fairness of your exams and level the playing field for your test takers. It eliminates the two largest sources of unfairness: testwiseness and cheating.
A test taker’s success on an exam should depend on the depth of their knowledge, not their ability to take tests in a strategic way. SmartItems can be combined with DOMC™ in Scorpion to reduce the effects of testwiseness.
The costs of damage control and redevelopment after a security breach or content theft can be financially draining for any program. SmartItem technology ensures an almost infinite lifespan for your tests.
It's not an item type, it’s a treatment for any kind of selected-response item. And it doesn’t matter if your existing items are multiple choice, short answer, matching, etc., you can convert them into SmartItems.
We get it. SmartItems can be tricky to visualize. We find an example can be helpful.
Click the button below and keep reloading the example to see a SmartItem render in real-time.
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SmartItems are invulnerable to cheating and theft, relieving SailPoint of the same security concerns that have plagued every other IT certification program for the past three decades.
Testing programs have already adopted and love them. They're fun to develop. They’re long-lasting and strong. They’re fair. More importantly, the scientific research results reflect all of that.
