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Assessment & Certification Department

The Assessment & Certification Department trains specialists who can measure competency accurately and certify learners fairly. Students progressively master psychometrically grounded assessment-instrument design, rubric development, portfolio and capstone evaluation methodology, and the integrated design of formative and summative assessments, while gaining hands-on experience building and administering certification frameworks aligned with international professional standards such as AAPG and SEG. Graduates step into the workforce ready to design and run trustworthy assessment and certification programs for industry and educational institutions on their own, from day one.

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Field-based Curriculum · 18

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Classical Test Theory & Reliability
Classical Test Theory & Reliability
Students learn classical test theory's decomposition of observed scores into tru…
Harold Gulliksen
Item Response Theory
Item Response Theory
Students learn item response theory — Rasch, 2PL, 3PL — linking latent traits to…
Georg Rasch
Generalizability Theory
Generalizability Theory
Students learn generalizability theory — decomposing error into variance compone…
Goldine Gleser
Validity Theory
Validity Theory
In Messick's unified framework, students understand validity as an evaluative ju…
Samuel Messick
Standard Setting Methods
Standard Setting Methods
Students learn and run standard-setting methods — modified Angoff, bookmark, bor…
William H. Angoff
Test Equating & Scaling
Test Equating & Scaling
Students learn the theory and design of equating and linking that place scores f…
Ledyard Tucker
Differential Item Functioning & Test Fairness
Differential Item Functioning & Test Fairness
Students learn DIF analysis — Mantel–Haenszel and kin — detecting items that beh…
Nathan Mantel
Computerized Adaptive Testing
Computerized Adaptive Testing
Students learn and implement the design of computerized adaptive testing — item …
Frederic M. Lord
Cognitive Diagnostic & Latent Structure Assessment
Cognitive Diagnostic & Latent Structure Assessment
Students learn cognitive diagnosis models — DINA, Q-matrices — that classify exa…
Louis Guttman
Performance & Rubric-Based Assessment
Performance & Rubric-Based Assessment
Students learn and conduct performance assessment with rubric design — backward …
Grant Wiggins
Portfolio & Authentic Assessment
Portfolio & Authentic Assessment
Students learn portfolio and authentic assessment — evaluating curated collectio…
Fred M. Newmann
Program Evaluation
Program Evaluation
From Tyler's objectives-based rationale to CIPP and logic models, students learn…
Ralph W. Tyler
Criterion-Referenced Testing & Mastery Learning Assessment
Criterion-Referenced Testing & Mastery Learning Assessment
Students learn to design criterion-referenced tests and mastery-learning assessm…
Robert Glaser
Survey & Attitude Scale Design
Survey & Attitude Scale Design
Students learn and conduct the design and validation of attitude and opinion mea…
Rensis Likert
Formative & Summative Assessment Theory
Formative & Summative Assessment Theory
Using Scriven's distinction by function of evidence, students learn formative an…
Michael Scriven
Professional Certification & Licensure Testing
Professional Certification & Licensure Testing
Students learn the full lifecycle craft of high-stakes licensure examinations — …
E. F. Lindquist
Taxonomies of Educational Objectives (Affective/Psychomotor)
Taxonomies of Educational Objectives (Affective/Psychomotor)
Students learn the affective and psychomotor sister volumes of Bloom's taxonomy …
David Krathwohl
Norm-Referenced Testing & Large-Scale Standardized Testing
Norm-Referenced Testing & Large-Scale Standardized Testing
Students learn the design of norm-referenced testing — norming, scale scores, pe…
Carl Brigham