Built inside university assessment offices, then spun out when no platform existed to replace what we were building manually
In 2022, Darnell Mitchell was directing assessment services at a Southeastern university system — supervising placement tests, managing item banks, and watching institutions accept static 100-question tests as substitutes for real ability estimation. The IRT science existed. The item calibration methods were textbook. What didn't exist was a platform that packaged them into something a department budget could approve, an LMS administrator could deploy in a day, and an accreditor could accept as evidence of genuine measurement.
Make precision measurement accessible to every institution — not just testing consortia with eight-figure contracts
Assessment science has known for decades that adaptive testing produces better ability estimates with fewer items. The IRT models underpinning major standardized exams (GRE, GMAT, LSAT) are not new. What's new is the assumption that only large testing organizations can run them. LearnVyx challenged that assumption by packaging a full 3PL IRT engine with Bayesian calibration into a platform that a single department can deploy via LTI 1.3 in an afternoon, at pricing a department budget can approve without a VP's signature.
A note on what we are and are not: LearnVyx is an assessment engine and credentialing platform. We are not a learning management system — we don't manage course content, enrollment, or curriculum delivery. We sit alongside your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle) as the measurement layer, not a replacement for it. We are also not a hardware proctoring vendor. We don't operate cameras, conduct identity scans, or lock browsers. Our integrity model works at the scoring layer, not the surveillance layer.
The people behind LearnVyx
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Interested in joining the team?
We're a small team with a large technical and scientific footprint. If you have a background in psychometrics, educational technology, or enterprise software and want to work on measurement that institutions can actually defend — reach out.