Meet our newest team members

Meet our newest team members

We are excited about adding Adam and Kaleb to our talented team of engineers, who have a love for education and developing technology to improve it. These new hires signal growth for our company and a need for additional product development to help our clients...
Partners in Performance Assessment

Partners in Performance Assessment

Is MZD the Missing Link in Your Performance Assessment Solution? While many companies have been hard at work for years solving challenges related to technology enhanced items, the same level of effort and development has not been invested into efficient mechanisms for...
The Power of Performance Assessments

The Power of Performance Assessments

Performance assessment is structured in a way that encourages deeper engagement by eliciting elaboration, questioning, synthesis, and justification. Performance Assessment and Student Learning With advancements in educational technology and the desire to measure...
The Importance of Evaluating Student Writing

The Importance of Evaluating Student Writing

Daisy Vickers began her career in performance assessment after teaching both high school and college English. In her first job with Harcourt, she learned the ropes as a scorer and scoring supervisor. In her second scoring season, she joined Measurement Incorporated...
The Power of Performance Assessment – Part 3

The Power of Performance Assessment – Part 3

MZD presents the third in a series of articles on the Power of Performance Assessments. For each email, we will highlight a segment from our published white paper that features the benefits of performance assessments. This week our focus is on the value of...