As a means to meet specific, targeted workforce development needs, assessment-based certificate programs serve many potential functions for certification organizations, licensure boards, and associations. For example, they offer another way for many professions to...
Congratulations! You’ve successfully launched your longitudinal assessment as an alternative to a high-stakes exam. As your longitudinal assessment progresses, and gaps in practitioner expertise emerge, how do you make those results actionable? To put it a slightly...
You’ve designed your assessment. You’ve partnered with a test vendor. As you prepare to launch your high-stakes certification exam, one big question remains: Does your certification software integrate with that test vendor? In other words, after you have determined...
Here at Heuristics, we always look forward to the annual I.C.E. Exchange conference, both as a chance to explore best practices in credentialing and as an opportunity to connect with our larger certification community. This year a contingent of the LearningBuilder...
Assessment-based certificate programs have emerged to fulfill an important need in workforce development. They bring together principles of instructional design, test development, and psychometrics to offer practitioners targeted and meaningful professional...
One of the hallmarks of Canadian professional regulatory organizations is an emphasis on professional quality assurance programs. These programs offer the tools for professionals to reflect on their practice in the context of improving provider outcomes, especially...
As any credentialing board committed to the public's protection will recognize, a test is but one step on the journey of lifelong learning. Practitioners must be also able to prove on an ongoing basis that they are current with their knowledge. To do that, there is a...
We are often asked if LearningBuilder a learning management system. And our response is “what do you mean by learning management?” And over the years, we have heard a variety of responses. So, to help our answer that question, we thought it would be helpful to break...
Certification programs rely on portfolio-based assessment certifications when the traditional exam-based evaluation method will not measure the qualification in a reliable and valid manner. The strength of a portfolio assessment certification program is that it can...
Whether you are in healthcare, safety, or another high-stakes profession, at some point, your Board of Directors is going to come knocking and ask the question: “what are we doing about continuing competence?” Your first inclination will be to look around at other...