Q-interactive™
Q-interactive frees you up to focus on the art of psychology.
Efficiency
With Q-interactive, all of your assessment tools are consolidated in one place; no more having to search through your test kits to administer specific batteries or subtests.
Administering an assessment test battery with Q-interactive frees you from having to juggle the various administration materials required for traditional paper-pencil tests. It allows you to more accurately observe and record notes, capture responses, and get to a scored subtest more quickly. Q-interactive allows you, as a clinician, to focus on the art of psychology, instead of being encumbered and distracted by mundane tasks.
Data from a four-month public beta revealed that clinicians using Q-interactive experienced a 30% time savings and a 35% cost savings when compared with using paper and pencil assessments.
Customization
Customize, administer and manage assessments in a way that perfectly suits your unique practice.
Q-interactive allows you to select and tailor assessment batteries to fit the specific needs of your clients. Simply tap on your digital device to choose from a list of the appropriate subtests. In the future, the Q-interactive Assessment Library will stock over 300 subtests to choose from.
Portability
With Q-interactive, your office is wherever you happen to be.
Imagine having all your assessment tools contained within two lightweight digital tablets – and the ability to adjust your assessment batteries wherever you are, without having to return to your office for more subtests. No more lugging around heavy manuals, a timer, stacks of record forms and response booklets, stimulus books, and other cumbersome assessment tools. Q-interactive makes everything you need accessible instantly, on digital devices that give you the freedom to work anywhere.
Familiarity
Even though Q-interactive is new, so much will be familiar to you.
Although presented in a new digital environment, the content and administration procedures of many of the assessments will be recognizable. There’s a short learning curve, but once you become familiar with the work flow, tools and information organization associated with the digital environment, you will quickly realize its benefits. You’ll have more time to focus on your clients and interpreting their results.
Adaptability
Q-interactive lets you adjust your batteries as you see fit, as you're administering them.
Q-interactive is designed to provide the greatest flexibility in administering assessments and subtests from Pearson’s library. Clinicians can quickly modify an assessment battery as needed in real time by choosing different assessments and/or subtests than originally planned, mid-administration. As you review scores from subtests your client has taken, your hypothesis might change. Q-interactive makes it easy to then adjust and adapt your batteries accordingly, even when you are working offline and not using Wi-Fi. As a result, administration time and client frustration are greatly reduced.
Q-interactive featured at professional association conferences around the world.
Pearson presents Q-interactive and WAIS-IV Equivalency Findings at the 2012 International Test Commission Conference
Publications
What clinicians are saying
Q-interactive is changing the way clinicians view the assessment experience. After working with Q-interactive, they have enthusiastically shared their perspective with their peers.
Q-interactive is featured in the following publications:
"Raw-Score Equivalence of Computer-Assisted and Paper Versions of WISC-V"
By: Mark Daniel and Dustin Wahlstrom, Pearson
Published by: APA
"Want to Ditch Paper and Pencil Tests?"
By: Dustin Wahlstrom, PhD. Product Owner for Q-interactive
Published on PsychCentral
"Cognitive Assessment Leaps Into the Digital Age"
By: Dean Delis, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine
Published in eSchool News, October 31, 2014
(Dr. Delis is the author of several tests published by NCS Pearson, Inc.)
"The Evolution of Psychological Testing: Embarking on the Age of Digital Assessment"
By: Hadas Pade, Psy.D. of the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area
(Reprinted with permission of Argosy University, San Francisco Bay Area)
"Q-interactive and the Undiscovered Country: A conversation on the new digital platform for assessment"
By: Carson McEvoy, M.S.E. & Scott Woitaszewski, Ph.D. of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Reprinted with permission from the Wisconsin School Psychologists Association newsletter, The WSPA Sentinel volume 13, issue 4.
"Assess: A review of Pearson's Q-interactive program"
By Chris Sweeney, School Psychologist in Ohio
(Redistributed with permission of the Ohio School Psychologists Association.)
"Q-interactive by Pearson: The Future of Psychological Testing?"
By Ben Laskey, Clinical Psychologist in United Kingdom
(Redistributed with permission of the Networking Community of Psychologists in Independent Practice.)
"Q-interactive and Digital Assessment"
By Kurt Wagner, School Psychologist in Illinois
(Redistributed with permission of the Illinois School Psychologists Association.)
"The Initial Digital Adaptation of the WAIS-IV"
By Drs. Tommie G. Cayton, Dustin Wahlstrom, Mark Daniel in Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment-Second Edition.
What you need to use Q-interactive
Browser Requirements
See table below for a list of common browsers that are and are not supported for Q-interactive Central.
| Browser Compatibility | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Internet Explorer |
Safari | Firefox | Edge |
| ✓(38+) | ✓ (11+) | ✓ (9+) | ✓(27+) | ✓ |
Tablet Requirements
Q-interactive requires the use of two Apple® iPads® that connect via Bluetooth. The table below lists which iPad models can be used for the practitioner and client devices. The iPads must be using iOS 10 or higher and have 16 GB of storage. You can connect to the internet using either Wi-Fi or cellular networks.
Please Note: starting in September 2020, Q-interactive will support iPads using iOS 12 or higher.
| Model | iPad - Practitioner Device | iPad - Client Device | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported | Not Supported |
Supported | Not Supported | ||
| iPad 1st to 4th gen | X | X | |||
| iPad 5th gen (2017) |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad 6th gen (2018) |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad 7th gen (2019) – 10.2” screen |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| Model | iPad Air - Practitioner Device | iPad Air - Client Device | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported | Not Supported |
Supported | Not Supported | ||
| iPad Air 1st gen | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad Air 2nd gen | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad Air 3rd gen (2019) – 10.5” screen |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| Model | iPad Mini - Practitioner Device | iPad Mini - Client Device | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported | Not Supported |
Supported | Not Supported | ||
| iPad mini 1st gen | X | X | |||
| iPad mini 2nd gen | ✓ | X* | |||
| iPad mini 3rd gen | ✓ | X* | |||
| iPad mini 4th gen | ✓ | X* | |||
| iPad mini 5th gen (2019) | ✓ | X* | |||
| Model | iPad Pro - Practitioner Device | iPad Pro - Client Device | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported | Not Supported |
Supported | Not Supported | ||
| iPad Pro (1st, 2nd and 3rd gen) – 12.9” screen |
✓ | X* | |||
| iPad Pro 1st gen – 9.7” screen |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad Pro 2nd gen – 10.5” screen |
✓ | ✓ | |||
| iPad Pro 3rd gen – 11” screen |
✓ | X* | |||
*Model is "Not Supported" because the psychometric impacts of displaying stimuli on a larger or smaller screen are unknown.
Where to Buy
iPads can be purchased at any retail store or website that sells Apple products.
Recommended Accessories
For the best assessment experience, we recommend the following iPad accessories:
One stylus for writing notes and capturing examinee responses
Two anti-glare screen covers to minimize glare from interior lighting
Two durable cases to protect iPads
Uncompromised Data Security
Safeguarding client confidentiality, securely backing up your data, and ensuring Q-interactive complies with the PIPEDA security regulations are our highest priorities. Q-interactive upholds the highest industry best practices for data security and encryption.
All client information and test data are encrypted and immediately backed up as they transfer between the Internet/Pearson Cloud Server, and Q-interactive’s digital devices.
Pearson uses one Secure Domain Name service, owned solely by Pearson and is hosted in Toronto, Canada. When users access Q-interactive, they are logging into Pearson directly.
Our server is behind a firewall and Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and also encrypted. Q-interactive also encrypts all users’ Personal Identifying Information (PII).
No Pearson employee, besides the primary database administrator, can access user PII (such as passwords) or the records of their clients. This prevents misuse or loss of private data.