About Us: Alpine Testing Solutions, Inc.

Our Mission

Alpine Testing Solutions provides high-quality, practical solutions that enable test sponsors to build, maintain, and continuously improve testing programs.

Our Culture

Customer-service driven: Demonstrate in our words and actions a relentless focus on discovering, understanding, and meeting customer needs and on achieving complete customer satisfaction.
Entrepreneurial: Encourage exploration of new ideas, applied research, and creativity.
Collegial: Encourage dialogue, teamwork, and respect within Alpine Testing Solutions and across the industry.
Fulfilling: Encourage individual growth and professional development.
Demanding: Expect full commitment and best effort from every employee within the context of work/life balance.
Supportive: Provide each employee with the appropriate tools, training, mentoring, and support to succeed.

Our Guiding Principles

Promote and abide by the professional standards and guidelines promulgated by the testing industry.
Create solutions and pursue research that is practical in a business context.
Respect our coworkers, our customers, the field, and the industry.
Contribute to the body of test development and psychometric knowledge.

Our Differentiators

Expertise in applying standards and guidelines within business constraints.
Expertise in communicating technical psychometric and test development information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Expertise developing and validating traditional and innovative selective-response and constructive-response formats.
Expertise in introducing efficiency, reducing errors, and solving problems through innovative testing-related technology services.
Flexibility in providing solutions.
Advantages provided by a virtual office environment (e.g. recruit the best staff without geographic constraints, mobility, experienced working in virtual teams).

Our Capabilities

We are a dominant provider of test development and psychometric services for Information Technology (IT) certification programs and we are expanding our presence in professional credentialing, licensure, and educational testing. We are known for our sound psychometric consultation, advanced psychometric analysis capabilities, test development expertise, and CertMetrics™ Credential Management.

Our staff specializes in general psychometric consultation in the context of applicable policy and program design, evaluating and auditing programs, developing validation frameworks, conducting test development and validation projects (e.g., job analysis, blueprint development, item development, item and form analysis, forms assembly, standard setting and equating, security analysis), and credential management for small- and large-scale testing programs of national and international reach.

We are committed to contributing to the measurement community through research and service. Our psychometric staff members serve in leadership positions for professional organizations; serve in an editorial capacity and contribute to peer-reviewed journals; and also regularly present research at meetings of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), Association of Test Publishers (ATP), International Test Commission (ITC), American Educational Research Association (AERA), and National Conference on Student Assessment sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

We are proud to be a member of The Association of Test Publishers (ATP) and The Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE). Psychometric staff are members of the National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME), International Test Commission (ITC), and the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association (NRMERA).