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Psychometric Research

Buros offers independent psychometric research to help contribute to your programs’ validity evidence. Some of the studies we offer and have recently conducted are listed below.
  • Alignment focusing on content and cognitive level.
  • Job/practice analysis - defining the knowledge, skills, and judgments for a profession.
  • Standard setting - establish cut scores for licensure, certification, and education.
  • Sufficiency - evaluating opportunities to demonstrate performance on your assessments.
  • Concurrent validity - evaluating different tests' scores for evidence of the same construct.
  • Predictive validity - evaluating whether scores predict a candidate's likelihood of success in the profession.
  • Reliability - evaluating the level of confidence you have in your scores, the level of error, and/or the stability of your decisions or performance classifications.