Altus Assessments Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 6 agreements; $2.5M value; 1 departments; 2 programs.
Assay record ASY-CA-0L3ANQV081 · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Altus Assessments Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/altus-assessments-inc/
Our schools have told us that longitudinal data about the student and being able to see the journey of the student, both the successful ones and the ones in distress, is critical. They are currently drowning in data, but this data is highly “siloed” both within a function of a program (say program management which often has 20 or more systems that create data) and between functions (admissions doesn’t “talk” or share data with program management). Programs need to be able to benchmark both internally and across schools to understand, not only how they are improving internally, but how they ar
The new CASPer Admissions Analytics Portal will be an insight hub for programs, who will be able to upload data on their applicants (e.g. demographics, interview scores, long term outcomes) in conjunction with the CASPer test data and perform analysis and visualization.
As CASPer becomes a standard for assessing people skills of applicants to professional programs, the incentive to try to cheat increases. This project is focused in improving low cost, effective, remote proctoring solutions to detect cheating attempts in a high stakes internet based admissions test.
Altus Assessments, a company based in Toronto, Ontario is responsible for delivering CASPer test, a situational based judgement test, that allows universities and colleges to look at applicants holistically. We will use the NRC IRAP contribution to hire a new graduate to lead the development of a load simulator that allows us to understand and improve load (# of applicants that can be tested) performance issues during a single test sitting.
The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm based on work in a project conducted with external IP resource firm.
The Project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the Firm.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.