An examination is a decision, not a questionnaire.
Designing, reviewing and safeguarding professional examinations, certifications and qualification standards.
Most examinations measure what is easy to measure
Multiple choice is cheap to write and cheap to mark, and it tests recall rather than competence. The result is a certificate that says little about whether someone can do the work, and that becomes hard to defend the first time a candidate contests a grade.
What I do
- Qualification profilesWhat a holder of this certificate must actually be able to do
- Examination architectureFormats, weightings, session structure and the rules that govern them
- Assessment criteriaGrids that two different examiners apply to the same result
- Examiner trainingBecause a good grid still needs people who read it the same way
- Review and revisionExisting examinations checked against practice and brought back into line
What you get
A result you can explain, in writing, to a candidate who challenges it.
The same difficulty for every candidate, in every language region, in every session.
An examination that survives the next change in the field instead of ageing out in a year.
How it runs
Diagnosis
What exists, what it measures, and where it would break under challenge.
Design
Profile, architecture and criteria, developed with your commission and your experts.
Handover
Documentation and examiner training, so your people run it without me.