Providing strategic management consulting and tactical delivery, we are nationally recognized Education, Training and Credentialing assessment program development and evaluation experts.
Trusted by profession regulators, professional associations, institutes of higher learning, government and other education-focused organizations to lead, manage and implement high-stakes projects affecting thousands of professionals, professional candidates and students, providing exceptional strategic management and psychometric services to a growing roster of new and repeat clients.
Research & Evaluation Consulting, Inc. (RAECON) has been Delivering the Analytic Edge® since 2008.
RAECON’s projects are led by Dr. A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali, a psychometrician and Credentialed Evaluator.
SERVICES AT A GLANCE
COMPLETED PROJECTS
EVALUATION-FOCUSED PROJECTS
DISCRETE CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
INVITED/REFEREED PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Dr. A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali, CE
Founder and Managing Director
RAECON‘s Founder and Managing Director, A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali is an expert and Canadian thought leader in program development and evaluation in the education/training and credentialing space. Many of the projects he has led involve his unique skill set and experience as a Credentialed Evaluator with graduate level education in Psychometrics.
Spanning more than two decades in research and evaluation, he has worked on projects: in the public sector on provincial and district-size programs; with national and provincial professional associations and regulators of healthcare, financial services, as well as the legal and engineering professions; with education-focused not-for-profits; for leading edge technology companies, international professional associations; and for some of Canada’s largest financial institutions. Many of the projects have been transformative, involving Dr. Ali’s strategic management and tactical delivery.
Since founding Research & Evaluation Consulting (RAECON) in 2008, he has built the consulting firm’s reputation as a key strategic and tactical resource in Canada’s professional credentialing domain, delivering the highest levels of client satisfaction on a variety of complex and high-profile projects. For example, his work with nursing regulators in Ontario and British Columbia on the development and validation of measurement systems has been implemented in other provinces as well, and he has a long-standing relationship with regulated professions in Canadian financial services, playing lead psychometric roles in the development of the CPA Canada assessment program and the transformation of the Competency-based National Insolvency Exam for CAIRP. Additionally, he has led international high-stakes assessment program development projects for exams administered globally.
Sid ensures high-quality, expert strategic and tactical consulting as well as client success management, resulting in more than 40% of RAECON’s business from repeat clients.
Dr. Ali is also a passionate and award-winning data visualization and intentional reporting advocate who regularly facilitates workshops on these knowledge transfer activities.
Professional Highlights
- Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Educational Measurement and Evaluation from the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Published in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, the Alberta Journal of Education Research, Gifted Education International, and the Canadian Government Executive Magazine
- National Science Foundation scholarship recipient for the Evaluators’ Institute
- Canadian Evaluation Society National Board of Directors (2015-2018); Credentialed Evaluator since 2012, Credentialing Board member (2023- )
- CPA Canada Assessment Development Task Force member, retained psychometric consultant
- Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals’ (CAIRP) Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professional (CIRP) Qualification Program (CQP) Task Force member, retained psychometric consultant
- Lead Evaluator Law Society of Ontario Pathways to the Profession Pilot Project and Articling Experience Study
- Psychometric Consultant for RBC Personal Credit Mastery Program
- Lead Measurement & Evaluation Scientist for College of Nurses of Ontario’s (CNO) Program Approval Framework – Now implemented in 2 other provinces
- Quality Assurance Program Review and new QA Program Development Lead Psychometric Consultant for the College of Optometrists of Ontario
- Psychometric and Test Development Lead for the international Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists’ CSS and Export Controls Exams
- Lead Psychometric Consultant for the Development of the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives’ (BCCNM) new Education Program Review process
- Lead Strategic Consultant (Measurement) on the Evolution of Lawyer Licensing Examinations for a Provincial Regulator
- Psychometric Consultant for the Engineers Canada Futures of Engineering Accreditation project
- Expert witness in litigations involving examinations in regulated professions
- Psychometric and Management Consultant for the Real Estate Council of Ontario Centralized Examinations Strategy
- Recipient of the Award of Excellence the Best Research category by the Canadian Public Relations Society, as well as the Gold Quill and Award of Merit by the International Association of Business Communicators for Communication: Research
TESTIMONIALS
FROM THE BLOG
Thoughts on AI, Bias and the need for Human Subjectivity
About a year ago, I had the privilege of being invited to be a panelist discussant for the Humber College – Research Analysts’ Program Spring Symposium. Each discussant was asked to comment on the following question: What new ethical concerns are being raised in market, social, and evaluation research due […]
EQUITY AND EQUALITY, FAIRNESS AND BIAS: MAKING CONNECTIONS IN CREDENTIALING
The topics of Equality and Equity relate to concepts of Fairness and Bias in credential program development and evaluation in ways that are not always clear, especially considering for the most part the former two are commonly considered societal issues, and the latter are more technical concepts that live in[…..]
PUTTING EVALUATION USERS FIRST TO BUILD EVALUATION CAPACITY
Recently I had the opportunity to write a piece for the Canadian Government Executive Magazine, an electronic and print publication that reaches some 70,000 readers per month. Many of these readers are key players in evaluation in Canada, from program managers to evaluation sponsors and consumers. Since we work predominantly[…..]
CONTACT US
What can we help you with?