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Jason Schaefer, MBA, MA, Joins Biddle

April 6, 2017 By Lori Lee

Biddle Consulting Group, Inc. adds another new Senior Consultant, Jason Schaefer, M.B.A, M.A., to its team of EEO experts. Jason has more than ten years of experience developing and validating examinations used for employee selection and licensure/certification clients throughout the United States. This includes designing and administering job analyses, conducting standard setting studies, writing technical reports, and performing specialized research related to test construction and validation. He has provided technical guidance to clients in test design, use, and analysis, as well as, conducted psychometric analyses to assess exam and item effectiveness. Additional work included the development and administration of surveys assessing employee attitudes, organizational climate, client satisfaction, program/process effectiveness, and 360 degree feedback for leadership development purposes.

Jason holds Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Industrial and Organizational Psychology from California State University, Sacramento. Jason has presented research findings on topics of interest to testing professionals at a variety of professional conferences.

For more information about Biddle Consulting Group’s job analysis, test validation, and test development consulting services, please visit www.biddle.com or call (800) 999-0438.

Clinton Kelly Joins Biddle Consulting Group Team

March 3, 2017 By Lori Lee

Biddle Consulting Group, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Senior Consultant Clinton Kelly, Ph.D./ABD to its team. Clinton has more than ten years of experience working with a wide variety of clients in the areas of job analysis, test development, and test validation services. His previous work experience includes him being responsible for developing and maintaining over 300 licensure tests in six different states and developing licensure tests in over a dozen states in variety of licensure areas (e.g., construction, insurance, cosmetology). He has also assisted with the development/validation of bilingual-certification testing for law enforcement and social-worker positions and developed assessments for public safety departments throughout the country. In addition, he has conducted psychometric analyses (e.g., item difficulty/discrimination, cut scores, pass rates, adverse impact, reliability, equivalent alternative forms), facilitated subject matter expert meetings, and authored technical reports.

Clinton holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from California State University, Sacramento, and he is completing his doctoral work in Applied Social Psychology at Brigham Young University. He is widely respected in the industry and has conducted presentations at a wide variety of professional conferences around the nation.

For more information about Biddle Consulting Group’s job analysis, test validation, and test development consulting services, please visit www.biddle.com or call (800) 999-0438.

Test Validation Training in Mobile, Alabama

November 5, 2014 By editor

Dr. Jim Kuthy presenting about the "Essentials of Test Validation"

Biddle consultants Jim Kuthy, Ph.D. and Heather Patchell, M.A. are in Mobile, Alabama this week providing training for the Personnel Board.

Here’s a note from Heather about their trip:

“Jim and I are in lovely Mobile, Alabama doing training for the Mobile County Personnel Board on Biddle Consulting Group’s proprietary validation processes as well as completing a validation workshop with job experts tomorrow afternoon. The Personnel Board employs 5500 employees who serve Mobile County in areas of healthcare, public safety, and recreation, just to name a few. One of their directors heard Jim and I speak on Basic Qualifications in Las Vegas two years ago and wanted to update their testing processes to be fair, valid, and legally defensible.”

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