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ASSESS & LEARN PORTFOLIO

A picture of progress to support learning

Assessment tools to guide teaching and learning

Gain a clearer, more comprehensive view of your students’ progress over time with NBME’s Assess and Learn portfolio. From flexible to fixed-form, quizzes to exams, we deliver a diverse suite of rigorously designed, convenient assessment solutions that offer actionable feedback to guide teaching and learning. 

Used together, our solutions tell a holistic story of progress, enabling you to enhance the learning experience for every student and improve outcomes across the learner journey.

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Customized Assessment Services (CAS)

Create assessments and quizzes tailored to your unique curriculum from a large pool of NBME test questions, with the flexibility to adjust the exam length, administration type and difficulty.

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Subject Exams

Assess student knowledge at the end of a course or clerkship through convenient, pre-built exams that include national normative data, which enables you to benchmark your cohort against examinees around the country.

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Self-Assessment Services

Help your students measure their progress and receive actionable feedback throughout medical school and as they prepare for the USMLE® or NBME Clinical Science Subject Exams with practice tests that include interactive performance reports and answer explanations to facilitate learning.

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We’re evolving with you

Medical school assessment needs are always changing, and as they do, our offerings are changing to meet them. Learn more about our recent exciting updates.

INSIGHTS℠ Dashboard

This interactive dashboard offers your students direct access to their exam results for all three of NBME’s core products in one place, enabling them to dig deeper into their performance, track their progress and better target their studies.

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CAS Practice Option

This flexible testing option enables you to create non-proctored, lower-stakes tests tailored to your curriculum to monitor student progress, identify areas where they may need extra help and foster student learning with post-administration exam reviews.

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See What Faculty Who Use CAS Are Saying
From block directors’ [using CAS] perspective, [...] time is saved assisting faculty in writing valid questions, defending [and] justifying FW questions, and [...] generating exams.
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Faculty [using CAS] preferred how much faster the NBME examinations were created, giving them more time to spend face-to-face with [their] students.
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The NBME CAS exam serves as a “center of gravity” providing the students a better sense of orientation and confidence that they were learning what was needed to master the material and ultimately pass their Step 1 exam.

The right tool for every stage of your students' learning journey

PRE-CLERKSHIP
CORE CLERKSHIPS
CLINICAL ELECTIVES
Subject exams
Comprehensive Basic Science Subject Exams
For summative assessments for pre-clinical content and USMLE Step 1 readiness
Comprehensive Clinical Science Subject Exams
For summative assessments for clinical content and USMLE Step 2 CK readiness
Basic Science Subject Exams
Can be used as end-of-course exams for discipline-based, pre-clerkship courses
Clinical & Advanced Clinical Science Subject Exams
Can be used as end-of-clerkship exams
Customized Assessment Services (CAS)
Customized exams built using CAS question bank
Choose what and when you test to confidently navigate shifting course structures and increasingly integrated curricula using the CAS question bank with pre-clinical and clinical content
Self-Assessment Services
Comprehensive Basic Science Self-Assessments (CBSSA)
For reviewing comprehensive pre-clinical content and assessing readiness for USMLE Step 1
Comprehensive Clinical Science Self-Assessments (CCSSA)
For reviewing comprehensive clinical content and assessing readiness for USMLE Step 2 CK
Clinical Science Mastery Series
For reviewing content for an ongoing clerkship and assessing readiness for an upcoming clerkship exam

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