Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services

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Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services

Valid Professional Certification tests and assessments must be relevant to the job responsibilities of a certified individual. Test questions must relate to skills actually used on the job. In addition, subjects addressed by the test questions should be distributed according to their importance in performing the job. Certification tests that address the right topics, in proportion to their importance on the job, are successful predictors of performance that enhance the credibility and acceptance of the Professional Certification Program.

Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services can help you ensure that your Professional Certification program's test or assessment is an accurate gauge of your certification candidate's skills. Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking Survey allows your experts to determine the relative importance of each of your Certification Program's objectives so that your Professional Certification test or assessment evaluates skills that are critical to success, while omitting test items that have no impact on predicting successful performance on the job.

Using the results of the Objectives Ranking Survey, Minds in Action will create a Certification Test Blueprint that will detail the types of questions that should be written for your Certification test. The Minds in Action Certification Test Blueprint will list the objectives that should be represented by test questions, and specify how many test items should be written for each objective. By creating a Professional Certification test or assessment to the specifications of the Certification Test Blueprint, you are ensuring that your Certification test is a valid, reliable, and relevant reflection of the skills needed to be successful on the job.

Overview:

Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services are composed of three major activities:

Composing an Objectives Ranking Survey from your proposed Certification test objectives. This survey will ask respondents to determine how critical each objective is to success on the job and how frequently the tasks embedded in each objective are performed on the job. The survey may be created in a printed version that you can distribute to your experts, or your experts may take the survey on-line at the Minds in Action web site.
After the Objectives Ranking Survey results are collected, Minds in Action will use an algorithm to calculate the relative importance of each objective. Objectives will be ranked according to their importance on the job and the number of test items that should be written to each objective will be calculated.
Using the results of these calculations, Minds in Action will create a Certification Test Blueprint that will list each objective that should be represented on the Certification test or assessment and specify the number of test items that should be written to each represented objective. Test item writers will be expected to create items that are congruent with the Certification Test Blueprint.

Minds in Action Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services is an essential step in ensuring that your Certification test or assessment reflects the realities of the job environment of your certificants. By using Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services, you are ensuring that your Professional Certification test or assessment is a quality indicator of competence on the job.

Purpose:

Your Professional Certification test or assessment must reflect the realities of the day-to-day job environment of your certificants. Test items must be representative of the tasks a certified individual performs on the job and distributed according to their relative importance. Minds in Action Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services allow you to determine the relative importance of your Certification test objectives so that your Certification test is a relevant indicator of ability on the job. The Certification Test Blueprint serves as a guide to test item writers so that your Professional Certification test remains a valid predictor of successful job performance. Minds in Action Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services may be used for:

Professional Certification Program Development. The results of the Objectives Ranking Survey will be used to create a Certification Test Blueprint that lists the objectives to which test items should be written and the relative weight that is to be assigned to each objective. Certification tests that are congruent to the Certification Test Blueprint are relevant indicators of successful performance on the job.

Curriculum and Course Development. The results of the Objectives Ranking Survey may be used to determine if your training curriculum and courses are teaching the appropriate topics with the appropriate emphasis. Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services reveal the objectives that are most important to successful job performance. This allows your curriculum and course developers to create learning interventions that emphasize the skills that are most important to your students, without wasting time teaching topics that are unimportant to your audience. Curriculum and courses developed consistent to the Blueprint deliver relevant skills to your student audience in an efficient manner.

Job Assessments. When assessing performance, it is important that the assessment reflects the true realities of the job. The results of Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services may be used to create job assessments that are relevant to the job responsibilities of your employees. By evaluating skills in proportion to their importance on the job, you are creating assessment criteria that accurately reflects true job performance. A valid assessment that reflects relevant job skills is accepted by employees as valid and serves as a useful tool for recommending additional employee development activities.

Benefits:

You can enjoy the following benefits to your organization by using Minds in Action's Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services:

	Valid Professional Certification Program tests and assessments that are relevant to the targeted job role.
	Increased acceptance of your Professional Certification tests and assessments by certification candidates and the public.
	Valid course and curriculum learning activities that are relevant to individuals in the targeted job role.
	Increased acceptance and demand for your curriculum and courses by prospective students.
	Faster and more efficient Professional Certification test development by test item writers.
	Job assessments that accurately reflect performance that may be used to develop constructive skills development plans for your employees.

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Professional Certification Program Development Services:
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    Objectives Ranking and Blueprinting Services
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