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Professional Testing to Present at ATP 2016 Conference

Professional Testing is thrilled to be presenting at several sessions at the upcoming Innovations in Testing conference, March 20–23, 2016, in Orlando.

• James Penrod of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards and Brad Roberts of Cardiovascular Credentialing International are joining Senior Psychometrician and From the Item Bank blogger Adrienne Cadle, Ph.D., to discuss “THE DRAG AND PLACE ITEM TYPE AND ITS MANY USES.”
• Vijay Krishna, Ph.D., director of accreditation services for the American National Standards Institute, is joining our Vice President for Professional Certification and From the Item Bank blogger Christine Niero, Ph.D., and Dr. Adrienne Cadle for a workshop titled, “UNDERSTANDING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE REVISED ACCREDITATION STANDARD ISO/IEC 17024: WHAT ARE THEY ASKING FOR ANYWAY?”
• Measurement consultant and From the Item Bank blogger Cynthia Parshall, Ph.D., and Dr. Adrienne Cadle will lead a workshop, “HOW TO IDENTIFY, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE ITEMS.” Earlier versions of this workshop at the Innovations in Testing conference have been standing-room-only affairs.
• Dr. Roy Swift, director of the ANSI affiliate Workcred, will join our vice president and chief operating officer – and From the Item Bank blogger – Dr. Cynthia Woodley to discuss “WORKFORCE SKILLS CREDENTIALING: DEVELOPING THE RIGHT CREDENTIAL.” The session will touch on government, public, and private initiatives in workforce development
• Senior psychometrician and From the Item Bank blogger Joy Matthews-Lopez, Ph.D., will join Manfred Straehle, Ph.D., of Assessment, Education, and Research Experts, and Sue Orchard and Cicek Svensson of Comms Multilingual to discuss, “WHAT SHOULD MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES KNOW WHEN TRANSLATING AND ADAPTING ASSESSMENTS FOR A GLOBAL MARKET.”
• Test developer Melba Joiner will join Elizabeth Langston of ARDMS, Stan Pickens of Strasz Assessment Systems, and Derek Trott of Prometric for a fishbowl session titled, “BLAST FROM THE PAST OR MEETING THE FUTURE.”
• Finally, Professional Testing will be presenting a Platinum Sponsor session titled, “MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WHAT?  INTERNAL AUDIT WHO? DOCUMENT CONTROL SYSTEM WHY? HELP!”

We look forward to see you there! To register, please click here.

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