GeoVerse Lab
โ† Education & Training Development Division

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
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๐Ÿ“ Classical Test Theory & Reliability
Classical test theory (CTT) is the body of statistical models that decomposes an observed โ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“ Item Response Theory
Item response theory (IRT) is a family of probabilistic models that relates a respondent'sโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿงฎ Generalizability Theory
Generalizability theory, introduced by Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda and Rajaratnam (1972), recoโ€ฆ
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๐ŸŽฏ Validity Theory
Validity theory is the branch of measurement science that asks what a test score can legitโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿšง Standard Setting Methods
Standard setting is the family of structured judgmental procedures by which a testing orgaโ€ฆ
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โš–๏ธ Test Equating & Scaling
Test equating is the statistical adjustment that places scores from different test forms oโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿงช Differential Item Functioning & Test Fairness
Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis is the statistical detection of test items thโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Computerized Adaptive Testing
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is a mode of test administration in which the testing โ€ฆ
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๐Ÿงฉ Cognitive Diagnostic & Latent Structure Assessment
Cognitive diagnostic assessment classifies examinees by which discrete skills or attributeโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“ Performance & Rubric-Based Assessment
Performance assessment asks learners to demonstrate a skill by producing an authentic artiโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Portfolio & Authentic Assessment
Portfolio assessment evaluates a curated collection of a learner's accumulated work, draftโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿงญ Program Evaluation
Program evaluation is the systematic investigation of the design, implementation and outcoโ€ฆ
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โœ… Criterion-Referenced Testing & Mastery Learning Assessment
Criterion-referenced testing interprets an examinee's performance against a fixed, articulโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“‹ Survey & Attitude Scale Design
Survey and attitude scale design is the construction and validation of self-report instrumโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ”„ Formative & Summative Assessment Theory
Formative and summative assessment theory distinguishes assessments by the function their โ€ฆ
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๐ŸŽ“ Professional Certification & Licensure Testing
Professional certification and licensure testing is the development and operation of largeโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿชœ Taxonomies of Educational Objectives (Affective/Psychomotor)
Taxonomies of educational objectives are hierarchical classification schemes that order inโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“Š Norm-Referenced Testing & Large-Scale Standardized Testing
Norm-referenced testing interprets an individual's performance by comparing it with the peโ€ฆ