Name
Excelsoft Technologies Limited Sponsor Session: Practical Skills Assessment at Scale: Blending Expert Judgment with Intelligent Marking
Description

OSCEs and Simulation-based assessments reveal what written exams cannot: how candidates think, communicate, and behave under pressure. But at scale, these assessments face a challenge: ensuring fair, consistent marking across multiple stations, examiners, and geographies while giving candidates meaningful feedback that actually improves their practice. This session explores how Excelsoft is helping resolve this problem for certification companies —not by replacing expert examiners, but by pairing human judgment with intelligent tooling to standardize quality and scale fairly. We'll walk through three concrete capabilities: 1. Smart Rubric Development: How examiners define performance standards once, then AI applies them consistently across all candidates, flagging edge cases for expert review. Result: Standardized marking without examiners spending hours on repetitive scoring. 2. Fault-Line Analysis: Beyond the score. Identifying recurring patterns in candidate performance—communication breakdowns, clinical reasoning gaps, timing issues—that cascade across cohorts. These insights feed directly into curriculum design and remedial coaching. 3. Layered Feedback for Learning: Traditional "you scored 85/100" doesn't help candidates improve. We'll share how digitized OSCEs generate multi-level feedback: immediate station-level comments, peer-benchmarked insights, and detailed post-exam briefings that candidates revisit during practice learning. The result is a system where examiners retain final authority over high-stakes decisions, but work faster and with richer data. Candidates get clearer feedback on their thinking and behaviour, not just grades. And certification bodies unlock actionable insights to continuously improve exams and training. This is not "AI replacing humans"—it's humans and intelligent tooling working together to raise fairness, consistency, and learning impact.

Date & Time
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 2:40 PM - 3:25 PM
Location Name
Celestin G - 3rd Fl