Addressing The Top 10 Myths About IT Certification
No industry or subject is safe from skepticism or the proliferation of myths… supernatural, acupuncture, physical therapy and (in this case) IT certification. An article was recently published about "The Top Ten Problems…
Advanced Test Delivery Options
An Overview of Emerging Testing:Approaches that Enhance Industry Certification Examinations Prometric executives recently wrote a series of columns for Associations News readers about the certification testing market f…
An Overview Of Emerging Testing
We live in a culture where emerging technologies are rapidly changing our everyday lives. Mobile technologies enable us to stay connected and communicate from remote locations; digital video recorders and streaming video…
Assembling Specifications For Job Analysis
JOB ANALYSIS DEFINED The term job analysis refers to procedures designed to obtain descriptive information about the tasks performed by professionals and/or the knowledge, skills, or abilities thought necessary to ade…
Assessing The Future Of Testing, By First Looking Back
While we often think of tests as a relatively recent creation, perhaps the result of the industrial revolution, the notion of testing dates back nearly to the dawn of civilization. Those early tests measured practical sk…
Association Executives Compare The Merits Of Computer-Based Tesing Vs. Paper & Pencil
For association executives launching new member certification programs, they should consider how the exam will be administered: via paper and pencil-based testing (PBT) or the more pervasive computer-based testing (CBT) …
Best Practices For Pretesting Exam Items
Reasons for Pretesting Any testing program has to develop processes for incorporating new content into their examinations. Pretesting items prior to using them as scored items on a live exam is done for two key reason…
Best Practices In Item Development For Online Testing
Whether an exam is computer based or offered on paper, the challenges relating to its development, including security, psychometric editing or review and legal defensibility, remain the same. In addition to these "age ol…
Boomer Retirement
For decades, the backbone of America's workforce has been formed from one generation: the Baby Boomers. Born in the years following World War II, "Boomers" are now supposedly on the brink of mass retirement, with e…
Candidate Education And Outreach
What certification promotion strategies will help drive a high number of participants, and therefore, lead to a successful program? The keys to mitigating test volume risk and ultimately driving an increase in demand …