§ The result
1 point separates Test Partnership and Versant by Pearson.
Test Partnership holds a 1-point edge over Versant by Pearson under rubric v1.0, 50 to 49, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Versant by Pearson takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for Test Partnership, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Versant by Pearson takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Test Partnership 57, Versant by Pearson 63), 50% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Post-Market Monitoring, Test Partnership 33 to Versant by Pearson 43.
Vendor profile
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
Vendor profile
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Test Partnership and Versant by Pearson are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Test Partnership | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Test Partnership 57 · Versant by Pearson 63
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Test Partnership 33 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.2 weighted points to Versant by Pearson
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Test Partnership 48 · Versant by Pearson 42
1.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Test Partnership 36 · Versant by Pearson 30
0.9 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Test Partnership 57 · Versant by Pearson 53
0.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Test Partnership 58 · Versant by Pearson 56
0.2 weighted points to Test Partnership
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Test Partnership 62 · Versant by Pearson 61
0.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Test Partnership minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Test Partnership | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 63 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 53 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 43 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 49 (F) | +1 | +0.5 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Test Partnership | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next