How does the Assessment measure both speed and accuracy of responses?
Our Assessment software measures both the time it takes to respond and the accuracy of the response for each task item in an assessment. In all of the tasks the computer starts a stopwatch with the presentation of an item and stops the stopwatch when the person responds into the microphone. A second person, the scorer, indicates whether the response was correct by clicking the left mouse button or incorrect by clicking the right mouse button. Once the computer has detected the person’s microphone response, the time taken has been measured. The time taken to score the response with the mouse is completely irrelevant.
