Background

Our experience in the Testing and Assessment (T&A) market is unrivalled in Latin America, which is why we are the largest T&A platform in Brazil used for delivering high-stakes, high-security credentialing and professional certification exams. Here are a few milestones in our history:

1.     We carried out our first mass item calibration in 2000 and launched the first Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) in Latin America in 2001.

2.     In 2001 we also launched Latin America’s first 100% Computer Based Test (CBT) for essay exams.

3.     Prepona successfully carried out one of the largest migration programmes from Paper Based Tests (PBT) to Computer Based Tests (CBT) in 2009.

4.     We launched Latin America’s first Linear on the Fly Test (LOFT) in 2011.

 
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Professional Certification/

Credentialing Clients

In 2019 we delivered a weekly average of 9,000 tests for 91 different high-stakes exams on behalf of 14 professional certification/credentialing bodies in the following areas or groups of people:

  • Business administration

  • Business consulting

  • Corporate governance

  • Credit cooperatives professionals

  • Forensic doctors

  • FOREX professionals

  • General and specialist banking

  • In-house certification programme (Brazil’s largest bank)

  • Investment analysts (in coordination with ACIIA)

  • Investment brokers

  • Investor relations

  • Legal ethics compliance

  • Private pension fund professionals

  • Real estate credit professionals

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Test Taker Satisfaction and Service Quality

·      People who take our tests find them easy and friendly to use. In fact, our Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 82.

·      Our service quality is measured every month and provides our clients with one of the highest levels in the industry standing at 99.98%. This means we can offer clients an SLA of the highest order.

Our Platform

This short video provides an overview of our platform – both for our clients and their test takers.

 

We can include other languages/scripts in our test navigation system if requested.

The following video explains why our platform is so effective for delivering exams in places where there is poor internet connectivity – in fact most of the world.

 

Main Psychometric Services

We provide our clients with the following psychometric services:

  • 3-parameter IRT calibration*

  • Discrimination with classical analysis

  • Distractor Analysis

  • Ongoing tracking of items, plus retirement and substitution in cases of item exposure

    *Used for both initial item calibration and ongoing tracking.

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Policies & Guidelines

We operate in accordance with policies and guidelines for the following areas:

Test-Data Transfer

  • Question and Test Interoperability (QTI).

 

Information Technology

  • Incident Management Process

  • Information Security Governance Plan

  • Information Security Policy

  • Platform User Agreement

  • Risk Management Process

  • Service Assets and Configuration Management Process

  • Software Development Process

 

Corporate Governance

  • Business Continuity Plan

  • Change Management Process

  • Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

  • Policy on Gifts & Hospitality

  • Spokesperson’s Policy

Strategic partnerships

Brazil - Getúlio Vargas Foundation

Paraguay - Instituto de Desarollo & Ipebras