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[…..]
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[…..]
As a consultant, I work on various projects and when the work is completed, I move on to the next ones, often not being able to see the fruits of my labour, such as improved programs, new program growth and the like. But recently I had the tremendous pleasure of seeing the culminating product of a project I[…..]
As I sit with clients and they speak to me about their “accreditation” needs, I listen intently, because the next part of the conversation tells me a great deal. The vast majority of the time, my clients have “certification” needs, not “accreditation” needs. I now then know I must do some capacity-building with them, sometimes[…..]