Applications of SACAT
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• Educational institutions
• Vocational schools
• Industrial training facilities
• Military training centers
• On the job training and performance evaluation
• Applicant screening
• Certification and licensing organizations
• Home schooling
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Self Assessment Computer Analyzed Testing (SACAT) is a practical spin-off from a 20-year university research program on the ability of people to assess the correctness of their own knowledge. A carefully designed paper-and-pencil answer sheet allows test takers to indicate their certainty or doubt about the correctness of each of their answers.
SACAT ...
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Helps teachers and trainers to teach.
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Helps students and trainees to learn.
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Measures several dimensions of a person's knowledge on a topic. The common multiple choice test measures only the percentage of answers which are correct. SACAT also measures the certainty of the person about their answers and the accuracy of the certainty judgements for both correct and incorrect answers.
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Detects topics about which individuals and groups are misinformed. If a person strongly believes something to be correct which is incorrect, then the performance of tasks which rely on this misinformation will likewise be in error. SACAT reveals misinformation which allows students/trainees, instructors and employers to take corrective actions.
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Produces an Index of Retention for learned material. It is necessary that the knowledge which is acquired by the person is retained for later use. SACAT provides such retainability information.
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HPE provides the SACAT answer sheets and Scoring Services, which includes a computer analysis of the test takers' answers and self assessment responses. Clients are provided the following day with profiles of test takers, individually and as a group, that reflect not only what they know, but also how usable and retainable the knowledge is.
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"When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it ... That is knowledge."
-Confucius (551-479 BC)
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Human Performance Enhancement, Inc.