The current generation of Computer- Based Assessment solutions focuses on multiple-choice questions as a primary way of testing candidates. While this approach is good for testing concepts, it has serious limitations when it comes to testing a candidate’s ability to perform actual tasks on the job (such as writing a computer program or drawing use-case diagrams or normalizing database tables or preparing a cash-flow statement).

The Radix Assessment Platform deploys technologies and processes that go well beyond multiple-choice questions and instead evaluates people's competencies by assigning them specific tasks and by assessing their performance on these tasks. This approach is referred to as Task-Centric Assessments. We call it Actionable Assessments.

Actionable Assessment of competencies enable identification of the relative strengths & weaknesses of the assesse that lays the foundation for "actionable plans" to address the objectives of the assessment. The key advantage of this approach is that it eliminates the enormous human effort of evaluating the test taker's solutions, thereby significantly reducing costs incurred in the process.

    Some examples of Actionable Assessments
    (for Software Development) include:

• Find the errors in a program and correct them
• Fill in the missing arithmetic expressions in a program
• Write missing functions to meet the objectives of the program
• Convert a given relational database table from 1NF to 2NF
• Create the UseCase diagrams for a specific problem description
• Create a Sequence diagram for a specific use case