DRC Licensure and Certification

Unmatched Innovative Exam Development
and Psychometric Services for the
Licensure and Certification Industry

Item & Exam Development

Focused, consultative, and hands-on guidance from our experts in both item and exam development
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Psychometrics

Dedicated, qualified, and experienced team of psychometricians who learn and understand your business and apply that knowledge to create fair and valid assessments
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Item Banking

Best-in-class item banking platform that streamlines productivity and offers a secure, intuitive interface for your staff and subject matter experts
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Exam Delivery

Candidate Management Services with the ability to manage any delivery provider chosen
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Who We Are

DRC is a national leader in the development and delivery of high-stakes, psychometrically sound assessments that measure knowledge, skills, and abilities.

We help licensure and certification boards and associations develop and deliver fair and reliable exams that allow aspiring professionals to achieve and maintain certification in their fields of expertise.

We are a full-service assessment partner serving millions of examinees, including those in the licensure and certification market, across the U.S. and internationally.

Latest News

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Case Study: Developing an ABMS 3C-Approved Longitudinal Learning Assessment for a Continuing Certification Program

By Samantha Sappington |

DRC’s collaboration with the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) was recently featured in Credentialing Insights, the online journal for the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (I.C.E.). DRC partnered with ABPS to develop their new longitudinal learning assessment (LLA). Following a…

Reliability and Validity as Assessment Building Block

By Samantha Sappington |

Concepts of how reliability and validity are complementary and how to connect key features of validity types to assessment features. Click here to watch the webinar.

What Your Item Analysis is Communicating

By Samantha Sappington |

Learn about interpreting classical item statistics and the influence that sample size and using item performance information in exams has on item bank decisions. Click here to watch the webinar.

A Closer Look at Item Editing in the Test Development Workflow

By Samantha Sappington |

Defining an effective editing process, designing content feedback for item writers to prevent and address common pitfalls, and demonstrating steps to finalize content for publishing. Click here to watch the webinar.

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We have decades of excellence in both paper-based and computer-based test delivery, including fixed-form and computer-adaptive online formats.

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Examination Administration

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