Psychometric Services

PES offers comprehensive psychometric services in support of the development and maintenance of reliable, defensible credentialing assessments. These services, which can be delivered individually, in combinations, or as part of a comprehensive package, include:

• Practice Analysis and Test Specifications Development
• Examination Development
  • Item Development
  • Examination Construction
  • Standard Setting and Equating
• Item Banking
• Scoring and Statistical Analysis
• Psychometric Consulting

The procedures and methodologies employed in support of these services conform with standards widely accepted as applicable to occupational and professional credentialing programs, including, among others, the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing jointly published by AERA, APA, and NCME (1999); the NCCA Standards for the Accreditation of Certification Programs; the International Standard of ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 for the Accreditation of Personnel Certification Bodies; the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures promulgated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); and PES’s own Guidelines for the Development, Use, and Evaluation of Licensure and Certification Programs (1995).