Certification Consulting Services (CCS) is ready to assist you with the development and management of your certification program, whether you are just starting your certification program, or managing and expanding your current program.
Our test development team of psychometricians, facilitators, program managers, and editors provide a wide variety of services that will create a solid foundation for your program, making sure that it is built on proven exam development techniques that are psychometrically sound, and follow current industry standards. These techniques produce certification exams where validity and reliability are key components to making your certification legally defensible.
For each exam, the CCS team will provide:
 Program Management |
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| - A Program Manager (PM) will be assigned to your account to oversee and manage all of the processes during the development of your exams. | ||
| Global Job Task Analysis |
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| - The global JTA will help define the overall direction and scope of your certification program in general, allowing for the development of specific exams in the respective domain areas. | ||
| Exam Job Task Analysis |
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| - The exam level JTA will help define the direction and scope of the specific exams within a given domain, to insure that each exam is covered and tested adequately. | ||
| Exam Blueprinting |
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| - A blueprint will be developed to give direction to the writers to know which topics are to be covered in the exam, and the number of items (or questions) to write for each of those topics. | ||
| Item Development Workshop |
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| - The items for your exams will typically be written during a week-long workshop, where your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will first trained, and then complete all item writing. | ||
| Exam Data Analysis |
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| - The data from your exams will be analyzed by our psychometricians to determine how the items have or are performing, to make sure your exams are developed and testing properly. | ||
| Cut Score Development |
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| - The data from the specific cut score methodology selected is analyzed, and then together with our
psychometricians, we will consult with you and help you determine the pass/fail level you desire.
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