VISION
We are a centre of opportunity for a diverse learner population, offering leading-edge testing technology, innovative ideas, and dynamic service to our students, communities, and post-school institutions.
MISSION
To be the nationally preferred provider of meaningful research and assessments that contributes to access and success in post-school education and training.
OBJECTIVES
- Develop tests in Academic Literacy, Quantitative Literacy, Scientific Reasoning and Mathematics that are valid predictors of performance in educational contexts – especially for students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. These tests are developed nationally by disciplinary experts and tap competencies that are required by these educational contexts.
- Do research into the reliability and validity of these tests; explore different methodologies investigating this capacity; investigate the factors that predict student success; build extensive databases on student throughput; and to subject the tests to scrutiny (reliability; validity; bias; coherence and internal consistency).
- Provide excellent client services; to organise, arrange, develop, and create tests and testing infrastructure (national and international); to provide resulting and reporting information in the areas of access, placement, diagnosis, and prediction; and to be efficient, professional, and reliable and offer quick turnarounds.