Overview:
The Assessment Phase is critical in order to define the skill gap that exists between those skills of your current employees and the optimal skill set required to support your operation.  We work to ensure both the validity and reliability of our testing methods, while remaining cost-effective for customers.  The Assessment phase is critical because it will help to identify and prioritize the training that is most critical to your employee base.
 
Objectives:
The key objectives of the Assessment phase are:

• Identify methods of assessment appropriate for each skill area
• Identify opportunities for online assessment in each skill area
• Identification of test proctors
• Develop or revise assessments for each skill area
• Implement assessments to target population(s)
• Report results of assessments
• Identify and prioritize training needs based on assessment results
• Develop test-out assessments in each skill area

Methodology:
Some of the tools used by MST during the Assessment Phase are:

• Pilots of assessments
• Simulators for hands-on assessments
• Web portals for online assessments and client records

Analysis → Assessment → Design → Development → Implementation → Evaluation