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Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., gave a presentation on Standard Setting at the Ontario Base Hospitals Group 2011 Annual Conference. For more details click here.
(May 9-13 2011)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., is featured in the 2011 ATP Innovations in Testing Conference Video. For more details click here.
(April 2011)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., Gage Kingsbury, Ph.D., Steve Wise, Ph.D., and Anthony Zara, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled The Future of Computer-based Testing is Now...Or At Least Real Soon Now at the 2011 ATP Innovations in Testing Conference. For more details click here.
(February 2011)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., Ruben Garcia and Sara Rupp presented a paper entitled Local Versus Remote Proctoring for High Stakes Exams at the 2011 ATP Innovations in Testing Conference. For more details click here.
(February 2011)

Mountain Measurement and our new TRANSOM product are featured in this month's ICE Newsletter.
(November 2010)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled Objective Classroom Assessment Using the Rasch Model during the 2010 Rasch International Conference on Probabilistic Models for Measurement in Education, Psychology, Social Science and Health in Copenhagen, Denmark (June 13-16, 2010). More details can be found by clicking here.
(April 2010)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., Gage Kingsbury, Ph.D., Steve Wise, Ph.D., and Anthony Zara, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled The Theoretical Issues That Are Important to Operational Adaptive Testing during the first annual IACAT Conference in Arnhem, The Netherlands (June 7-9, 2010). More details can be found here.
(April 2010)

Kirk A. Becker, Ph.D., Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., Phil Dickison, Ph.D., and James S. Masters, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled A Comparison of Item Exposure, Test Information, and Theta Recovery for LOFT, CAT, and Fixed Form Tests during the first annual IACAT Conference in Arnhem, The Netherlands (June 7-9, 2010). More details can be found here.
(April 2010)

Mountain Measurement completed a pilot study report for Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound (ELS) on the relationship between students' participation in an ELS program and their academic growth.
(April 2010)

Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., Gage Kingsbury, Ph.D., and Anthony Zara, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled A Comparison of Hybrid Progressive Item Selection Procedures for Adaptive Tests during the "Issues with Computer Adaptive Testing" session on April 2, 2010 at the National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. More details can be found here.
(April 2010)

Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D., Helen Claydon, and Jamie Mulkey, Ed.D. conducted a session entitled Evaluating and Charting a Path for Innovation during the ATP 2010 Innovations in Testing conference in Orlando, FL (February 7-10, 2010). More details can be found by clicking here.
(January 2010)

Mountain Measurement, Inc. completed a report for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB®) on their 2009 Advanced Certification Needs Assessment Survey Results. The report can be found here.
(January 2010)

Mountain Measurement, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of TRANSOM™, the latest incarnation of the company's Test Results Management System. TRANSOM will be showcased November 18-21 at the 2009 National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA) Annual Educational Conference in Phoenix, AZ. More information on TRANSOM can be requested by directly contacting Mountain Measurement, Inc. from their company's contact page .
(November 2009)

Anthony Zara, Ph.D., Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D., G. Gage Kingsbury, Ph.D., and Casey Marks, Ph.D. conducted a session entitled A Comparison of Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) with Linear on the Fly Testing (LOFT) Methods for Certification Applications during the 2009 National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA) Annual Educational Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
(November 2009)

Mountain Measurement has finally entered the blogosphere! Check out their blog, MMLog to follow and read up on Mountain Measurement's fun and insightful thoughts on industry-related topics.
(June 2009)

Timothy Muckle, James Masters, and Brian Bontempo, Ph.D., presented a paper entitled Comparing Difficulty Estimates Using Operational CAT and Pilot Data during the "Studies on Rasch Conditions and Applications" session of the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, CA April 13 - Friday, April 17, 2009.
More details can be found at AERA Annual Meeting 2009.
(April 2009)

Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D. and Daniel Wilson, both of Mountain Measurement Inc., presented a paper entitled Generating Artificial School Attendance Boundaries during the "Methodological Issues and Geographical Boundaries in Analyses of National Datasets" session of the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, CA April 13 - Friday, April 17, 2009.
More details can be found at AERA Annual Meeting 2009.
(April 2009)

Look for Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D. and Geoffrey Borthwick at the 2009 Annual NCME meeting. Brian was the discussant for the session entitled "Item exposure control in CAT". Brian presented a paper written by he and Geoffrey entitled Repeat Test Taker Performance.
(April 2009)

Mountain Measurement and the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) have partnered to deliver the ABFM Validity Survey. If you are the program director of a Family Medicine residency program, be on the lookout for an invitation to take the survey.
(March 2009)

Mountain Measurement is collaborating with the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examinations (NPLEX) on the 2009 NPLEX Pharmacology Job Task Analysis Survey. If you're a licensed naturopath, we encourage you take the survey. For more information, please contact Geoff Borthwick at (866) 477-1288 ext 132.
(March 2009)

Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D., Mountain Measurement's Principal Consultant, Michael Sammet, Program Coordinator and instructor for UC Berkeley Extension's Sustainable Design program and weekly Radio Show host on Santa Cruz's KZSC 88.1 FM, and Quinn Sutton, Vice President, Marketing at KRYTERION, Inc., will be guest speakers on the topic Online Testing: The Green Scene at the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) Innovations in Testing 2009 Annual Conference. Details can be found at ATP 2009.
(February 2009)

Mountain Measurement has begun working on a "killer application" that will provide reports using GIS data to map student growth results.
(February 2009)

Mountain Measurement announces the release of a new educational program reports website for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. NCLEX Program Reports
(September 2008)

Mountain Measurement proudly sponsored the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR) 2008 Annual Conference. For more information on the conference, go to CLEAR.
(September 2008)

Mountain Measurement is pleased to announce that it will be providing Results Management & Psychometric services to American Registry For Diagnostic Medical Sonography, ARDMS.
(September 2008)

The GED Testing Service has asked Mountain Measurement to provide psychometric support to its program.
(February 2008)

We are pleased to announce the addition of six new staff members to the Mountain Measurement family. They will begin work on the 2008 What Makes Schools Work research study, a project of Vanderbilt University's National Center on School Choice, in association with the Northwest Evaluation Association. Please visit the What Makes Schools Work website for more information.
(September 2007)

Mountain Measurement provides a full suite of psychometric services for SAP, who administer over fifty different Associate and Professional level computer-based certification exams around the globe including item and test analyses, DIF analyses, standard setting, and forms assembly.
(August 2007)

Microsoft, a provider of over 100 different computer-based certification exams for software developers, database administrators, and IT professionGenerating Artificial School Attendance Boundariesals around the globe has asked Mountain Measurement to supply a number of services, including psychometric item and test analyses for Microsoft exams. Microsoft has also asked Mountain Measurement to perform psychometric test development tasks, such as forms assembly.
(June 2007)

The Joint Research Committee (JRC) of Pearson VUE and The National Council of State Boards of Nursing has accepted Mountain Measurement's proposal entitled "A sampled and pooled approach to calculating average group performance." Mountain Measurement expects this research to validate the use of a new algorithm that redefines the estimation of average group performance. This method will allow Mountain Measurement to offer complete NCLEX® Program Reports to educational programs that have as few as 5 graduates testing within a reporting period.
(January 2007)

The National Registry of EMTs is pleased to announce that the NREMT First Responder, Basic-EMT, Intermediate85-EMT, and Paramedic Certification Examinations are now being delivered as a Computerized Adaptive Tests through Pearson VUE. Mountain Measurement was responsible for the design of these CAT systems and will continue to provide psychometric consultation to the NREMT as the exams transition from the rollout to the stabilization phase.
(January 2007)

The National Center on School Choice and the Northwest Evaluation Association have partnered with Mountain Measurement on a three year IES Research project pertaining to the governance, curriculum, and teaching practice in both public schools and schools of choice. Mountain Measurement will provide data support services by managing the data collection effort in all of the sample schools.
(December 2006)

Jan Semenza, Tanya March, and Brian Bontempo are being published in the Journal of Urban Health. Look for their article entitled "Community-Initiated Urban Development: An Ecological Intervention" in the January 2007 edition or through the Springer web site by clicking here.
(October 2006)

Melissa Hart will present a paper entitled "A multi-faceted approach to assessing human responses to extreme heat, poor air quality, and public advisories" on behalf of the FUSE team at the 6th International Conference on Urban Climate in Goteburg, Sweden.
(June 2006)

The National Council on Measurement in Education reports that Brian Bontempo will present two papers at this year's annual meeting. The first entitled "Time as a Variable" is co-authored with Marty McCall from the Northwest Evaluation Association. The second paper, entitled "A comparison of traditional and IRT based item quality criteria" is co-authored by Jerry Gorham from Pearson VUE. Both papers will be presented on Saturday April 8, 2006 in San Francisco, CA.
(March 2006)

Mountain Measurement is pleased to announce that we are now offering research related data support services. Data support services include phone-based data collection, data-entry, data cleaning and data integrity services. For more information, check out Mountain Measurement Data Support or call Carina at (503) 284-1288 ext 125.
(January 2006)

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Pearson VUE, and Mountain Measurement are pleased to announce that the NCLEX® Program Reports have undergone a technological enhancement. Effective October 2005, reports will be generated as electronic files, quickly and easily accessed and downloaded from a secure web site. For more information, check out the NCLEX® Program Reports web site or call the NCLEX® Program Reports hotline at (800) 261-6227.
(October 2005)

The National Association of EMS Educators is pleased to announce that Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D. founder and CEO of Mountain Measurement, Inc. will give a keynote address at their annual meeting. The presentation, entitled "The Future of Testing and Assessment", will be given on Thursday September 8, 2005 at 10:00 AM in San Antonio, TX.
(August 2005)

Pearson VUE is partnering with Mountain Measurement to provide the NCLEX® Program Reports for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Beginning in the Fall 2005, semi-annually, Mountain Measurement will provide subscribing nursing education programs with detailed information on the performance of their program's graduates on the NCLEX® examinations. Mountain Measurement expects to convert the reports to electronic format and enhance the level of service provided to subscribers.
(July 2005)

Mountain Measurement has moved! Our new offices are located in North Portland in the historic Mississippi District.
(December 2004)

Brian D. Bontempo, Ph.D., Mountain Measurement's Principal Consultant has begun serving as the Psychometrician for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. Between now and Jan 1, 2007, Dr. Bontempo will lead the psychometric design and development of a Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) system that will assess the competency of thousands of newly trained First Responders, EMT-Basics, EMT-Intermediates, and Paramedics from around the United States.
(November 2004)

Mountain Measurement is proud to be part of a research team that has recently been awarded a grant by the The National Science Foundation. The project, Feedbacks Between Urban Systems and the Environment" (FUSE) seeks to understand how the components of the urban atmospheric environment interact. One goal of the project will be to develop a model that can be used to forecast human interaction with the urban atmospheric environment during episodes of extreme heat and poor air quality.
(July 2004)

Mountain Measurement to provide psychometric services for IT industry certification programs. Details in our CompTIA Press Release.
(May 10, 2004)

Steve Wise and MM Principal Brian Bontempo, Ph.D. discussed the papers presented at the Computer Adaptive Testing - Item Exposure Session (Session G) of the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education in San Diego, CA April 13-15, 2004. Details can be found at NCME-Item Exposure.
(January 10, 2004)

Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D. and MM Principal Brian Bontempo, Ph.D. presented a paper entitled "Conducting a Narrative Analysis on a Tentative Reconciliation between Opposing Camps: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, CA April 12-16, 2004. More details can be found at AERA-Narrative Analysis.
(January 10, 2004)

For the fourth year in a row, MM Principal Brian Bontempo, Ph.D. presented at the Technology in Testing Conference sponsored by the Association of Test Publishers. This year, Brian will present an overview of Standard Setting Techniques on Tuesday February 3rd, 2004 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, in Palm Springs, CA. More details can be found at Standard Setting Techniques.
(December 8, 2003)

Mountain Measurement partners with Questionmark, a leading testing tool provider and test delivery provider, to expand client offerings.
(July 1, 2003)

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) partners with Mountain Measurement, Inc. to evaluate the validity of the Open Book Option for Emergency Nursing Recertification
(April 10, 2003)

MM Principal Brian Bontempo presented at the Technology in Testing Conference sponsored by the Association of Test Publishers. Details can be found at Managing Item Banks.
(January 27, 2003)

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing partners with Mountain Measurement, Inc. to evaluate the speededness of the NCLEX-RNŽ examination.
(January 6, 2003)

Mountain Measurement, Inc. and NWEA partner to help all kids learn.
(October 16, 2002)

Mountain Measurement, Inc. officially organized as an S-Corporation.
(October 10, 2002)





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