Microsoft Office Tests; a brand new offering

 

Introduction

 

Since July 2020 we have expanded our offering of Microsoft Office Tests.

We teamed up with ISV.Online and combined our expertise in mapping people’s potential to go to the next level. This partnership integrates the ISV.Online MS Office Tests into the Thalento® Talent Solutions. We are happy to announce that our offering of Knowledge Tests has enlarged with MS Office Tests. This range consists of 5 MS Word & 4 MS Excel Tests.

 
 
 

Our Microsoft Office Tests are available in 3 languages; Dutch, French and English for MS Office 2016. We are proud of this extensive partnership, unique in the assessment market by offering MS Office Tests in multiple languages.

This blog gives you more information on the offering, facts, timing, output and interpretation of the results.

The MS Word offer consists of 5 tests each covering each specific skills and knowledge:

  • Document Review and Referencing

  • Formatting

  • General Understanding

  • Tables and Illustrations

  • Advanced and Specialist Tasks

The MS Excel offer consists of 4 tests each covering specific skills and knowledge:

  • Formatting and Reviewing

  • Formula & Functions

  • General Understanding

  • Working with Data

 

Facts & Timing

 

All tests are limited in time with a maximum of 15 minutes.

The exercises are based on text fragments, multiple choice questions, true or false, ordering the statements, scenario based info, point out the right spot, drag & drop images…

Microsoft Word

  • Document Review and Referencing – 30 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • Formatting – 30 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • General Understanding – 35 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • Tables and Illustrations – 30 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • Advanced and Specialist Tasks – 30 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

Microsoft Excel

  • Formatting and Reviewing – 36 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • Formula and Functions – 36 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • General Understanding – 35 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

  • Working with Data – 35 exercises, 1 exercise per screen

 

Output & Results

 

Score

This is the overall score for the assessment.

This graph is a dynamic result and NOT just the % of questions correct. This score is relative to the system wide maximum and minimum achieved for each discipline, the result may change over time as more people complete the assessment.

 
 

Comprehension

Each assessment is broken into disciplines or skill set areas. Comprehension shows how well the participant understands each of the areas.

Each discipline is scored and given a ranking of weak, proficient or strong. Less than 30% is deemed as weak, between 30% and 70% as proficient and above 70% as strong. The disciplines are weighted with 1 for weak, 2 for proficient and 3 for strong.

These scores are totalled, then divided by the maximum comprehension score possible (the total number of disciplines multiplied by a strong score in each area meaning a weighted score of 3).

 
 
 

Percentile Rank

The system percentile rank shows the participant’s performance compared with others in the whole database. It’s a dynamic score and may change over time as more people complete the assessment.

For the calculation of the percentile rank, we look at how the score of a participant relates to all other scores in the system. If the participant scores well on the test, the participant achieves a higher percentile score than someone who scores worse on the test. As mentioned above, a percentile score says something about the percentage of the population that scores lower or equal to the score that the individual has achieved.

 
 

As an example: if you achieve a system percentile rank of 88%, this means that you score better than or equal to 88% of all people in the database, or in the other words you are one of the 12% best participants.

In our example n = 580, this is the number of participants who took the test to date and consequently the number of test results used to calculate the percentile rank.

Pricing

 

The Microsoft Office Tests are purchased via Credits. Purchased Credits never expire, they remain valid forever.

  • MS Office Credit : €12,-*, one Credit per Test

  • MS Office Word Package Credit: €50,-*, one Package Credit to access all 5 MS Word Tests

  • MS Office Excel Package Credit: €40,-*, one Package Credit to access all 4 MS Excel Tests

*Prices do not include VAT.

 

Want a free trial or interested to add our MS Office Tests to your TH-Cloud? Just reach out, we would love give you access!

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Jeffrey Excelmans