When you take a protocol and scale it up, the complexity increases and the margin for error decreases. This is true for many functions in organizations and is definitely true for test taking. Theirry Rocher runs France’s Ministry of Education and he’s familiar with handing out assessments on a national level.
In 2015, the DEPP (Direction de l’évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance, a section of the French Ministry of Education) launched a computer-based assessment for 160,000 of France’s 6th graders, and to date, this is the largest standardized diagnostic test to have taken place online in Europe.
TAO's open source platform gives you the freedom to control your digital assessment programs, from item authoring to delivery, at any scale. And because the platform is QTI-native, you'll never risk losing your testing assets to a locked system.
TAO is built on QTI to ensure your platform, tests and items are 100% interoperable. Because of the platform’s open architecture, TAO is ready-made to integrate with your existing solutions. You can even easily integrate with platforms like Moodle to deliver assessments right in your LMS.
Confidently scale your testing campaigns from the classroom to nation-wide. TAO Pro and TAO Enterprise Editions can scale test deliveries to well over 200,000 concurrent users, and testing data is securely stored on the server-side, reducing any risk of compromising or losing critical information.
TAO comes with built-in functionality to support for Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT). This enables you to have control over which adaptive testing algorithms you want to use depending on the purpose of your test, and allows you to offer a more personalized assessment experience to your test-takers.
TAO gives you the flexibility to host your platform yourself, use a third party provider or if you're a Premium or Enterprise user, leverage a shared or private TAO Cloud. You can also deliver tests via LTI directly within your LMS, test-centers and more.