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 to the advent of AI […]
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 the credentialing world. I aim[…..]
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 in the private sector, many[…..]
I have posted previously about my Transformation in Data Visualisation and without that paradigm shift, I believe I would not be adding as much value to clients as I do now. This post is about the next step on the journey for me. I believe a lot of you are in the same boat, so the message of this[…..]
In one word: Validity. When working with my clients from professional accountants to bankers to IT specialists, whenever we are building new certification or updated certification exams, early on in the project execution we conduct a job analysis. Now, our focus is a little different than those in the Human Resources world who conduct job analyses, but our methods are[…..]