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Assessment & Certification Center

Designs assessment instruments and manages certification programs to ensure competency and quality assurance, implementing formative and summative assessments that credential learners against professional standards such as AAPG and SEG.

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Research Fields 18
Classical Test Theory & Reliability
📏 Classical Test Theory & Reliability
Classical test theory (CTT) is the body of statistical models that decomposes an observed …
Item Response Theory
📐 Item Response Theory
Item response theory (IRT) is a family of probabilistic models that relates a respondent's…
Generalizability Theory
🧮 Generalizability Theory
Generalizability theory, introduced by Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda and Rajaratnam (1972), reco…
Validity Theory
🎯 Validity Theory
Validity theory is the branch of measurement science that asks what a test score can legit…
Standard Setting Methods
🚧 Standard Setting Methods
Standard setting is the family of structured judgmental procedures by which a testing orga…
Test Equating & Scaling
⚖️ Test Equating & Scaling
Test equating is the statistical adjustment that places scores from different test forms o…
Differential Item Functioning & Test Fairness
🧪 Differential Item Functioning & Test Fairness
Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis is the statistical detection of test items th…
Computerized Adaptive Testing
🖥️ Computerized Adaptive Testing
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a mode of test administration in which the testing …
Cognitive Diagnostic & Latent Structure Assessment
🧩 Cognitive Diagnostic & Latent Structure Assessment
Cognitive diagnostic assessment classifies examinees by which discrete skills or attribute…
Performance & Rubric-Based Assessment
📝 Performance & Rubric-Based Assessment
Performance assessment asks learners to demonstrate a skill by producing an authentic arti…
Portfolio & Authentic Assessment
🗂️ Portfolio & Authentic Assessment
Portfolio assessment evaluates a curated collection of a learner's accumulated work, draft…
Program Evaluation
🧭 Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is the systematic investigation of the design, implementation and outco…
Criterion-Referenced Testing & Mastery Learning Assessment
✅ Criterion-Referenced Testing & Mastery Learning Assessment
Criterion-referenced testing interprets an examinee's performance against a fixed, articul…
Survey & Attitude Scale Design
📋 Survey & Attitude Scale Design
Survey and attitude scale design is the construction and validation of self-report instrum…
Formative & Summative Assessment Theory
🔄 Formative & Summative Assessment Theory
Formative and summative assessment theory distinguishes assessments by the function their …
Professional Certification & Licensure Testing
🎓 Professional Certification & Licensure Testing
Professional certification and licensure testing is the development and operation of large…
Taxonomies of Educational Objectives (Affective/Psychomotor)
🪜 Taxonomies of Educational Objectives (Affective/Psychomotor)
Taxonomies of educational objectives are hierarchical classification schemes that order in…
Norm-Referenced Testing & Large-Scale Standardized Testing
📊 Norm-Referenced Testing & Large-Scale Standardized Testing
Norm-referenced testing interprets an individual's performance by comparing it with the pe…