A view back from the future: testing for credentialing in the year 2010 Online publication date: Wed, 16-Jul-2003
by Richard M. Jaeger
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL), Vol. 12, No. 1/2/3/4, 2002
Abstract: This paper addresses the question, ''What will be the nature of certification and licensure testing ten years into the new millennium?'' The paper provides admittedly speculative answers to this question by extrapolating current technology and trends as the author focuses on many of the major issues that ground certification and licensure testing today - the use of adaptive testing, computerised delivery of tests, the role of certification and licensure boards, the process of job analysis and test content definition, the dimensionality of credentialing examinations, setting standards of acceptable performance, examination delivery and security, the formats of examination questions and examination construction algorithms. The paper contains the author's predictions for common practice in each of these areas in the year 2010 in light of current technological capabilities and recent development trends in the field of certification and licensure testing.
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