AssessmentCenterScore is the digital platform for fire promotional assessment centers — independent scoring first, structured consensus second, defensible record throughout.
Both steps, recorded separately
AssessmentCenterScore guides your assessment panel through both steps — independent scoring first, consensus discussion second — and records everything. Each assessor scores independently on any device, with written behavioral rationale required per dimension. When all assessors have submitted, you trigger the consensus step: assessors can see each other's scores, discuss, and revise. You record the final consensus score.
The result is a complete record of both steps — exactly what a civil service attorney needs to see.
The two-step process is what makes it defensible — and what makes it hard to document
Fire department promotional assessment centers have a specific, mandated process: assessors first score independently, then meet to discuss and reach consensus before recording final scores. That two-step process is what makes the results defensible. It's also what makes them hard to document.
Most departments run this on paper and a discussion in a conference room. The independent scores go on one sheet. The consensus scores go somewhere else. Whether the discussion influenced the independent scores — or the other way around — is not recorded anywhere.
When the civil service appeal comes, 'we followed the process' is not a document. A document is a document.
“The union filed a grievance over the lieutenant's list. We couldn't show them that the consensus scores were reached independently.”
Assessors are supposed to score independently before the group discussion. In practice the senior assessor speaks first and the others adjust — and whether that happened has never been recorded either way.
Built for the process you're actually required to run
Generic scoring tools handle assessors submitting scores. They have nothing to say about the consensus step — which is the half of your process that a grievance is most likely to question.
Independent first. Consensus second. Both on the record.
First assessment center process free — no payment until your second
Run a real process end to end — real candidates, real assessors, real consensus step — before you pay anything. Roughly what one outsourced process costs, for a year of running your own.
$399per assessment center
For departments running a company officer or battalion chief process once or twice a year. Pay for the process you're running.
$999per year, unlimited processes
For departments running assessment centers for multiple ranks across the year — lieutenant, captain, and battalion chief on one plan.
Built for departments running their own assessment centers
If your process has a mandated consensus step — and today that step lives in a conference room and a second stack of paper — AssessmentCenterScore was built for you.
Not a testing vendor. Not a one-step scoring form.
A department that has had a promotion list challenged knows that 'we followed the process' is not enough. The mandated two-step process is what makes an assessment center defensible — but only if both steps left a record.
A department that hasn't been challenged yet is one lieutenant's exam away from needing this record.
Questions about AssessmentCenterScore, your assessment center dimensions, or how the consensus step is recorded? Email us directly — tell us the rank you're testing for and how your assessor panel is seated, and we'll get back to you.
First assessment center process free — no payment until your second. There is nothing to sign up for before you write to us.