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Measurement Incorporated

What is the best part of working at the company?
This company offers total automony in regard to working hours, within specified start and end times. Whether you prefer a sunrise schedule or a night owl schedule, you druthers are accommodated.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Being timed for production on a daily basis,  and being continually assessed for accuracy moment by moment is unnerving, especially at the onset of each scoring season before clarity filters through the newest assignment. Giant warning messages appear on your screen if you've scored a random number of responses too high or low. And you have no idea where those test-responses might be hidden amongst the hundreds of unscored responses you're working with.  

Also, I find the training to be inadequate. The company provides sample response sets for comparison, along with input as to why said response should receive a certain score. However, there are not enough sample responses in each set to cover various scenarios that might appear in a student submission. Nor are they organized in such a fashion that they're easily obtainable, and readable. Add to that the fact that there are no real-time responses to compare to work you're currently scoring.  The sample sets correlate with prompts from previous years.  The gray areas in my mind are never clarified. 

The training videos which appear after you score qualifying sets aren't very helpful either because the instructor's tutorial is never precise in clarifying exactly why or why not a sample response achieves or fails to achieve a specific score. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
As a remote employee, I have no idea.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depends on the day. At the beginning of the season, I spend 8-10 hours a day training. When the task of evaluating/scoring begins, there is no such thing as typical day. Work filters in randomly, so I could work eight hours, or I could work 15 minutes total in one day.  Or not at all.

I am still employed with MI so here is my unbiased opinion.

I started working with MI in June, 2014 as a  PT night time reader. I have since worked FT and enjoyed every bit of it. You do have to qualify for every project that you are assigned to do, though. I will say that at the Tampa location, you will be in a room full of other readers in which you could be crammed in if the project needs a lot of readers. And also, it's a bit stuffy (it seems like there's not much of ventilation even though it does get cold). Beware of the parking as well. Park in the wrong spot and you will get towed. The environment at this location is very good. I have found myself friends with a few co-workers (white, black, etc) and your progress is always monitored with good feedback from your team leader. The site manager here is also very nice and funny. In my talks with him about a co-worker (he was my ex-boyfriend), I addressed the situation with him and my scoring director and it was handled promptly. They are also easy with your schedule if you have appointments or if you're not feeling well. As for the one review about Blacks, I am a black woman that is still employed with them. There is no discrimination going on. No one sleeps or does drugs. If there were any issues, why not address them while employed? I am sure that in my case, we were treated the same along with any one else and got in trouble if need be. 

I am now in Charlotte, NC and had my first project with this location. I am pleased with the site manager here. She does respond to your questions in a timely manner and as I started an online project, it was fairly easy. 

Overall, I think this is an easy, yet temporary position if you are looking for extra money. If you are looking for more, this isn't for you at all.

Pros:  It's a great place if you already have sustainable income from elsewhere.  Great for retirees or in between jobs for a short period. Sometimes based on project they allow home-based remote work, onsite day hours and night hours.  Fun co-workers and educational assessments.  Rewarding work if you enjoy reading and scoring tests.

Cons:  Pay is less than $12 and requires a college degree.  Not dependable if you are relying on a consistent income within 6 months.  You never know when it will end so it can be abrupt.  You will never receive a full month's pay because something will always happen to their computers or something that will require you to not work for a full week or a few days...it looks like this typically -- First week of hire is never where you will receive two full weeks ....You will then receive two full weeks pay...then some issue will happen so you will be out for a few days or a full week ....then by the time the testing project ends it generally will not be where you will have two full weeks of compensation.  Projects generally last 3 - 6 months but because of all the intermittent delays you will never accrue enough hours for unemployment should the job end.  It's a systematic process they have down to a T.  You also need to always check your payroll because the documented times are generally incorrect.

A typical day, there isn't one. You may be frantically busy or not at all and you may do any of several kinds of tasks for several projects. 

Workplace culture is generally good. Coworkers are nice and people help each other.

Supervisors and managers are reasonable until you get to upper management which is brutal and terrible.

The hardest part of the job is knowing you are disposable.

The most enjoyable part of the job is having nice coworkers.

Now here's what you really need to know: This place appears to be in free fall in the wake of massive, sudden and unexplained layoffs. Many good people have been badly harmed by this termination with no warning. 

Advice to Management

It is not prudent to enact massive, brutal cuts without so much as consulting your supervisors and managers. If the company is in financial trouble, your many wonderful employees could have helped you brainstorm better solutions. I wouldn't be surprised if the company tanks now. I hope you learn from this and stop treating human beings as disposable.

Work is sporadic at best. Days pass without any available work. Team leaders are polite, but not especially insightful or supportive. You will get different answers from different people while being held to some kind of unknown accuracy standard. 
For essays, you are trained to score to the test itself, not to a grade-level rubric. The rubric is provided, but all kinds of errors are allowed in the guise of, "they tried." This results in everyone getting a participation trophy instead of providing honest grading attesting to the fact that most of these kids are barely literate.

I didn't speak to a single person during the entire project. Everything is done via email and chat. The lack of communication about the amount of work available and the daily contradictions in set standards reveal a general disregard for reader/evaluators.

The pay is a good hourly wage, but if there's no work, it doesn't matter. You are unlikely to get full-time hours in this position. Remote work is nice, but you will not get the same commitment from the company that they expect from you.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I have only worked for this company in person. Team leaders (immediate supervisors) were for the most part kind and responsive, and the ratio of team leader to reader rarely went above one to ten.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
IT was not very good, and I think one time we were held for ransom, although this was kept secret.  We were not paid for down time, either as a result of this or of  vicissitudes in how the tests came in for scoring.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
In person, friendly. I did work the occasional project in which the scoring director was less than professional or friendly, but this was not the norm.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Somewhat boring, due to the repetitive nature of the work (the project scoring international private schools was somewhat more interesting) but because I received consistent positive feedback for being both fast and accurate not bad for my self esteem. It was frustrating when the systems went down.

I would gladly work for this company again. I first came in contact with them as a temporary employee, scoring student essays for a number of years while seeking full-time work. As a Content Specialist, I was challenged to actually create the types of tests I had previously scored, as well as many others. The work was a combination of collaboration and individual efforts, and often involved supervising off-site contract writers. I found the work occasionally tedious but often challenging and stimulating. The hardest part of the job was often meeting the client's demands for a particular test using the available materials; this sometimes required developing new test questions on the fly. It was rewarding to be lauded for our collective efforts by the client, and even more so when this led to new/extended contracts. Co-workers were a mixed group of people and very interesting and rewarding to work with.

When the Measurement Inc won a state contract to score the essay questions on their standardized tests, they would call people from their pool to get the number of people they needed to complete the work on time. The pay was low, no benefits, liked the people I worked with, no job security, never knew when or how long you would be needed to complete the task, and then you waited for the next call which could be months away. We could not rely on a steady income. It was feast or famine. I enjoyed the co-workers and enjoyed reading the answers - some were very insightful. The hardest part was not knowing if and when another call would come for another project. Management could have been better - they would give us instructions and change their minds several times before we would get the correct instructions on how to score the answers.

If I could give this company negative stars, I would. This is a terrible place to work and what does the incompetent management give long-time employees: layoff notice and 30 minutes to pack your stuff and get out. I’m talking employees who worked nearly 20 years or more! In the 1990’s, MI was a small company where people worked long hours, but it was a sense of family. As the unrealistic aspirations of a decaying management style grew, it took  on more work than it knew it could handle, and burning out longtime employees along the way with lack of assistance, guidance, or pay. MI could not pull off a miracle with the State of Tennessee and lost the contract. As a result, many seasoned employees were let go. The company now has a skeleton crew and more layoffs are occurring. Just go ahead and close the doors: the company has been on life support for several years. What’s the purpose of trying to keep up a facade of a business that has lived beyond its usefulness?

If you want to work full time or part time you can, but just be aware, once work runs out there are days you won't work full time or part time - they make you clock out PROMPTLY. I don't like the "guessing game" when comes to scoring the students responses - I think if they need help scoring students work - they should provide the scores for readers/(workers) to give to the students.  For the most part it seems like you're doing the work for them since there is ALOT of feedback/notes that you receive from the team leaders regarding what the client wants.The team leads do provide feedback which could use much improvement and the supplemental materials (which you use a guide) help "somewhat".  I like that this is temporary/seasonal work. I would not recommend this job as permanent work. It does get boring as you are reading the same or similar student responses to essays - very repetitive.

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