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MZD Continues to Grow, Meet our Newest Team Members
MZD Team Grows In Support of Its Mission as a World Class, End-to-End Assessment Platform Innovative assessment technology company adds a Director of Customer Success, Chief Architect, and Technology Product Manager to expand its suite of performance...

CAE Introduces ‘Next Step’ Assessment Management Platform
Modern system improves delivery and reporting experience for students, educators and institutions Council for Aid to Education, Inc., (CAE), a nonprofit developer of performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ essential college and...

The Casualty Actuarial Society Establishes an Online Scoring Partnership with MZD
Rapid Response to Global Pandemic The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is the world’s only actuarial organization focused exclusively on property and casualty risks and a premier international organization for credentialing and education. It's more than 9,000 members...

Platform as Possibility: NWEA selected MZD to help Launch a Statewide Innovative Assessment Pilot in Louisiana
More Relevant, More Equitable State Assessments Results from the initial phases of Louisiana’s Innovative Assessment Pilot have been promising. Leaders in the Department of Education and teachers in participating districts are reporting positive reactions to the new...

MZ Development Successfully Completes 2020 SOC® 2 Type 2 Examination
NORTH LIBERTY, IOWA (PRWEB) DECEMBER 17, 2020 - MZ Development (MZD), a world-class end to end performance assessment platform, today announced the successful completion of their 2020 System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2® Type 2 examination. With long-standing...

MZD is Growing, Meet our Newest Team Members
We are very excited to have Adam, Emma, and Mahmoud joining us at MZD. We are currently experiencing very exciting times as our team continues to grow. Emma and Mahmoud are going to be true assets to our engineering team as we build out our world-class...

MZD releases next-generation AI scoring solution, advancing authentic assessment marking
September 2, 2020 North Liberty, IA - Marking open-ended item responses is one of the most expensive components of a quality assessment system. It takes an enormous amount of time and energy to achieve quality human marking. With pressure to meet deadlines and...

MZD selected to Help the Colorado Department of Education Deploy Performance Assessment Initiative
August 4, 2020 MZD, the provider of classroom performance assessment tool OSCAR Classroom, announced its selection to provide performance assessment scoring and reporting solutions for the Colorado Department of Education (CDE). In 2015, the Colorado State Board of...

Meet EMMA
Since the creation of MZD we have been on a mission to make performance assessment possible for all types and sizes of organizations. With the introduction of OSCAR in 2015 we made human scoring faster and more accurate, in 2018 ADAM joined the family to make the...

PSI Services and MZD Announce Technology Partnership to Advance Performance-based Testing
May 26, 2020 Glendale, CA - PSI Services (PSI), a leading provider of online proctoring and performance-based assessments, together with MZD, a provider of performance assessment software solutions, are very pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement to...