Ellen Julian PhD
Psychometric Consultant
Helping Certification Programs Make Good Decisions
Practical Psychometric Advice
Helping decision makers
- Understand current status and options
- Identify risks and vulnerabilities
- Prioritize projects
- Select, evaluate, and negotiate with vendors
Supporting testing staff
- Document processes
- Understand why
- Develop procedures
- Build the team
- Facilitate subject-matter expert meetings
Analyzing exam data
- Find the problems
- Understand what is
- Understand what might be
- Equate cut scores across exam forms
Your Testing Staff Needs Extra Support
Short-term & decision-focused or
Long-term for staff growth
Expertise
Provide psychometric training for your testing staff and volunteers
Confidence
Give your governance the confidence of knowing the exams are strong and defensible
Practical Advice
Get understandable advice and help with vendor selection
Experience & Perspective
- Decades of experience leading high-stakes testing programs
- Skilled facilitator of subject-matter expert meetings
- Experience auditing large and small exams‘ policies and psychometrics
- Extensive resource network of testing experts
- Big-picture orientation with passion for details
- Practical focus with simple explanations
- Friendly, informal style paired with a passion for precision and accuracy
I help testing programs make good psychometric decisions and improve their exams by supporting their staff with practical, short-term advice and long-term mentoring.
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Working with Groups
My Testing and Certification Salon, in its third year, invites the local testing community to share experiences and ideas in a relaxed setting.
I am President of the Performance Testing Council, on the steering committee for the DC Certification Networking Group, and have served on committees of, reviewed for, and presented at numerous ATP, ICE, and CLEAR conferences.
I am an ANSI/ISO 17024 psychometric assessor and audit a wide variety of certification programs.
Want more information or ready to get started?
Whether you are selecting new vendors, worried about test results, or starting a new exam, Julian Consulting can help you make good psychometric decisions.
