Test Design and Delivery Certificate

Develop reliable tests for training, certification, and management decision-making.

A customized test can help determine who should participate in a training program, and if the participants mastered the material presented. This two-day program provides a comprehensive understanding of how to design and deliver tests that will meet organizational needs and follow professional standards.

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ASTD's Continuing Education Units

Earn 1.4 CEUs upon successfully completing this program. Learn More

For additional information, or to learn if this program is right for you, contact our customer care department at 800.628.2783 or 703.683.8100.

Audience

The Test Design and Delivery Certificate Program is designed for workplace learning and performance professionals who want to learn a systematic approach for developing tests.

About this Program

Module 1: Planning the Test

Establishing reliability and validity from the beginning
Identifying content areas to be tested
Determining number of test items
Identifying benefits and challenges of delivery methods
Determining the item format.

Module 2: Creating the Test Items

Writing test items
Avoiding bias and stereotyping
Increasing the cognitive level
Providing rationales for items and justifying the answer key
Linking item content to test content outline.

Module 3: Creating the Test Form

Developing test directions
Developing test administration directions including American's with Disabilities Act and English as a Second Language issues
Allocating sufficient time for the test
Assembling the test form.

Module 4: Delivering the Test

Ensuring test security
Establishing test-retest policies
Controlling item exposure
Limiting opportunities for cheating
Maintaining integrity and ethics.

Module 5: Evaluating the Test

Using item level data to improve item quality
Using test level data to improve test quality
Establishing reliability and validity of the test
Setting passing standards
Reporting the test results
Addressing legal considerations
Documenting the test development and design process.

This is a certificate program and the ASTD Test Design and Delivery Certificate is awarded to participants upon successful completion of the 2-day program.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants are able to:

Develop a test content outline and understand its value to the testing process
Identify the hallmarks of a good test question, and apply them to developing and evaluating test questions
Develop test forms including writing directions for examinees, page layout, and item sequencing
Use item analysis to identify and correct problem items
Use professionally accepted methods for setting a passing score for a test
Determine the appropriate mode of delivery, what score reports are needed, and who should have access to score reports.

Registration
Attendance Policy
Transfer Policy
Cancellation Policy

Member Price: $1,095
List Price: $1,395

By Mail: Registration Form

By Phone: Phone: 1.800.628.2783 or +1.703.683.8100

Participation in all originally scheduled days of the program is mandatory in order to receive the certificate of completion and 1.4 CEUs. Participants who miss more than two hours of the entire program will not be eligible to receive the certificate. Participants who fulfill the attendance requirement will receive a certificate at the end of the program.

Participants may transfer their registration to another seminar free of charge. The transfer request must be received in writing five (5) business days prior to the first day of the seminar for which you were originally scheduled. A $50 transfer charge will be applied to all transfers received less than five (5) days prior to the first day of the session. Participant substitutions may be made at any time with written notification to ASTD. If the substitute participant is not an ASTD member and the original participant was, the difference between the member and nonmember rate will be billed.

If cancellation should be necessary, written or email notification to ASTD is required five (5) business days prior to the first day of the seminar. You may receive a full refund, minus a $100 administrative fee, up to and including the 5th business day before the seminar. If you find that you cannot attend, and it is less than five (5) business days before the start of the seminar, you may send a replacement, with written notice to ASTD. If you are unable to send a replacement, you forfeit your registration fee. All credits must be used within 1 year from the date of issuance.

On-Site Offerings

ASTD can make arrangements for this program to be offered on-site at your organization. Your attendees participate in the same learning experience offered at our public workshops, but have the convenience of being at your site and the benefit of covering the material with company peers.

Interested in bringing this program on-site to your organization? Please contact Amanda Miller at amiller@astd.org or 703.683.9215, or request information through our online form.

Facilitators

Cindy Hill

Dr. Cindy L. Hill has served as an industrial/organizational psychologist for ACT's Professional Development Services area since 1996. During Dr. Hill's career, she has provided research services supporting a wide variety of assessment development and implementation projects for clients that include licensing and certifying organizations and major corporations. She also has consulted with major U.S. companies to develop and improve their personnel selection systems, develop and evaluate training programs, develop performance appraisal programs, and conduct market research.

Dr. Hill manages and conducts ACT's job analysis training program with specialized software applications in both paper and web delivered distance learning and on-site workshop delivery formats. Dr. Hill also played an integral role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a two million dollar train-the-trainer environmental education and awareness program for the government.

Eric Vincent

Eric Vincent is Senior Design Partner of Design Group International (DGI), based in Kohler, Wisconsin. Founded in 2001, DGI is a consulting firm of top persons in the fields of business planning, organizational design and development, industrial-organizational psychology, the economics of organizations, interim executive leadership, executive coaching, funding and governance. DGI consultants offer their disciplinary expertise via a process consulting model to help organizations and their leaders discover clarity and implement customized solutions.

Eric is an industrial-organizational psychologist who has developed nationwide testing, education, and training programs that provide stakeholders with credentials, employment, and development plans. The training programs he has designed are aligned to international standards of quality and effectively equip employees for job success. His evaluation of training programs for strategic effectiveness has reduced turnover and increased the ROI of selection and training at several Fortune 500 Companies and helped them meet their productivity goals.

Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States as well as nonprofit organizations have worked with Eric to develop competency models, job analysis, needs analysis, validation studies, selection systems, feasibility studies, testing programs, test content outlines, adverse impact studies, structured interviews, training programs and skill standards for occupations ranging from executive leaders to those in technical professions. Some past clients have included the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), American Express, The Barnabus Foundation, BP Pipelines, BMW of North America, the Center for the Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT), Dassault Falcon Jet, Farmers Insurance, the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL), Pointe Schools, and Trinity Health. He is also an assessor for the certificate accreditation program (CAP) through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Eric holds a BS in Psychology from Purdue University and an MS in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Ohio University.

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