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• Certified Developer of Training (CDT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Developer of TRaining (CDT)

   

  Do you develop learning solutions, such as  Instructor-led training, asynchronous or synchronous training, simulations, serious games, and the like?  
  

  Intended Audience:   The CDT certification is for professionals who develop training and instructional solutions that are delivered live, in-person, or online and who want to be recognized for their ability to create effective learning events. 

  
  

  To earn this performance-based certification you must demonstrate all 9 standards by 1) answering questions about one of your learning solutions that are supported by client attestations and artifacts, and 2) committing to a Code of Ethics.  The CDT is endorsed by ISPI.   

  
  

  The 9 standards are:

  1.  Address Sustainability 
  2.  Align Solution
  3.  Assess Performance
  4.  Collaborate and Partner with Stakeholders
  5.  Elicit Performance or Practice
  6.  Enhance Retention and Transfer
  7.  Ensure Context Sensitivity 
  8.  Engage Learners
  9.  Ensure Relevance

  Click here to download the Handbook for the complete standards and the scoring rubrics.  The cost is $600 for Hale Center Professional and ISPI members and $725 for others.   Applications are accepted throughout the year.    
  

  Once certified you will receive a digital mark.  Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you have questions

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• Certified Facilitator of Training (CFT)

  • Start
    01 Jan 2024
  • End
    30 Dec 2025
  • Location
    virtual

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  Applications open for the Certified Facilitator of Training

  (CFT)

  
  

  Do you facilitate learning events?   Online?   In person?

  Intended Audience:  The CFT certification is for professionals who facilitate training done online or in person and who want to be recognized for their skill in engaging learners. 

  
  

  This performance-based certification is endorsed by ISPI, Training Magazine, and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). 

      
  

  
  

  You must submit one or more videos for a maximum of 35 minutes that demonstrate your competence in facilitation and are supported by learner evaluations and client attestations, and commit to a Code of Conduct.  The 4 competencies are:

  1.       The Facilitation Process – Competent Facilitators ask questions that:

  • Promote participation
  • Engage learners equitably
  • Promote reflection
  • Reinforce learning points
  • Clarify participants’ remarks and questions
  • Follow up on participants comments
  • Promote relevant conversation among learners so they process the content
  • Redirect questions to other participants to promote engagement

  2.       The Learning Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Introduce the purpose, content, participants, and value.
  • Establish the relevance of the content; relate the content to needs and the learner experience.
  • Give examples that illustrate and reinforce the learning objective
  • Guide learners in activities designed to reinforce the objectives 

  3.       The Learning Assessment Process – Competent Facilitators:

  • Elicit examples from learners on how they will apply the content in the workplace
  • Assess comprehension                          

  4.       Professionalism – Competent Facilitators:

  • Demonstrate proficiency in the content and facilitation expertise
  • Respect participants’ opinions and perspectives

  The cost is $600 for Hale Center professional members, ISPI, and IFMA and $725 for others.   Click here to download the Handbook with the standards, requirements, and the scoring checklists.  Register here.  Applications are accepted throughout the year.

  Once certified you will receive a digital mark.  Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you have questions

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• How to Build Valid Tests & Assessments

  • Start
    20 Feb 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    27 Mar 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  How to Build Valid Tests & Assessments

  Using  Generative AI

  A 6-Part Certificate Series: 

  Take one, all, or any combination

  Thursdays at 11a.m. to 12:00p.m. Central Time

  February 20 to March 27

  Intended Audience:  This program is for internal and external consultants wanting to gain the expertise required to develop valid tests and assessments and deliver quality outputs in significantly less time by leveraging generative AI.  You will learn what is required to create a valid test, the value and limitations of different testing methods, how to fairly score performance-tests, how to select and qualify judges, and how to leverage generative AI to accelerate the process.   You will see real examples of AI prompts and the outputs: response supplied (multiple-choice tests), response not-supplied (performance, portfolios), and rubrics.   You will get job aids with practical guidelines that you can apply to your work.  

  The Test and Assessment series is part of Hale Center's 2025 theme on Technology.   It is designed to strengthen your technical skills in assessment and measurement.  You can take the whole series or just selected topics of interest to you.   When you complete the 6-part program you will receive a certificate in Testing.  

  Topics in the series are:

  1. Test Basics:  learn what makes something a test and what is required for a test to be valid. ($64*; $59; $54)
  2. How to Decide What to Test, Why, and How:  learn the value of  developing operational definitions and doing a criticality analysis to determine what and how to test.  You will get guidelines and tools for developing an operational definition and doing a criticality analysis.  ($74*;$69; $64)
  3. How to Develop Performance Tests: learn about the different types of performance tests, what differentiates them in terms of fidelity (how life-like they are), and what is required of each.  You will receive a set of guidelines for developing performance tests, and how to accelerate the process by using generative AI.   You will see examples. ($84*; $79; $74)
  4. How to Develop Checklists and Rubrics:  learn how to more quickly design and develop checklists and rubrics to score performance tests using generative AI .  Learn to train and qualify judges in how to score performance tests and control inter-rater reliability.  You will receive templates and guidelines. ($84*; $79; $74)
  5. How to Develop Multiple-Choice Questions that Test Higher Level Skills:  find out how to use the work of David Merrill and Robert Bloom to create forced-choice questions (multiple-choice) that measure memory and reasoning.  Learn how generative AI can significantly accelerate the process allowing you to make smart use of your subject matter experts. You will receive a toolkit with guidelines for developing effective multiple-choice tests ($94*; $89; $84)
  6. How to Analyze Test Results:  learn how to do an item analysis to identify which questions and answer choices are effective and ineffective.  You will also learn how to compare tests to confirm they are equivalent, that is they measure the same knowledge and are equivalent in difficulty. ($74*; $69; $64)

  * Cost per session for the general public.  Discounts are available to ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, CTMR, and Hale Center Professional Members.  If you want to register for specific topics only, please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org and she will complete your registration.  Please note, one paid $444 registration allows up to six people in your organization to attend at no additional charge.   Just send Judy the names. 

  Materials:  Each topic comes with a workbook containing the slides, guidelines, and other supporting materials. 
  

  Cost:  For the series is $444, a $30 series savings (a total of six in your organization may attend at no additional cost); the cost for the series for ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, and CTMR individual members is $424, a $60 series savings; the cost for series for Hale Center Professional Members is $384, a $90 series savings.   Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you want to find out how to arrange for an in-house program.

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• How to Build Performance Tests, Checklists, & Rubrics

  • Start
    06 Mar 2025
  •  
  • End
    13 Mar 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Virtual

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  How to Build Performance Tests, Checklists & Rubrics

  
  

  Part of the Testing Certificate Series: 

  Take one, all, or any combination

  Thursdays at 11a.m. to 12:00p.m. Central Time

  March 6^th and March 13^th

  Intended Audience:  This program is for internal and external consultants wanting to gain the expertise required to develop valid tests and assessments and deliver quality outputs in significantly less time by leveraging generative AI.  You will learn what is required to create a valid test, the value and limitations of different testing methods, how to fairly score performance-tests, how to select and qualify judges, and how to leverage generative AI to accelerate the process.   You will see real examples of AI prompts and the outputs: response supplied (multiple-choice tests), response not-supplied (performance, portfolios), and rubrics.   You will get job aids with practical guidelines that you can apply to your work.  

  The Test and Assessment series is part of Hale Center's 2025 theme on Technology.   It is designed to strengthen your technical skills in assessment and measurement.  You can take the whole series or just selected topics of interest to you.   When you complete the 6-part program you will receive a certificate in Testing.  

  Topics in the series are:

  1. Test Basics:  learn what makes something a test and what is required for a test to be valid. ($64*; $59; $54)
  2. How to Decide What to Test, Why, and How:  learn the value of  developing operational definitions and doing a criticality analysis to determine what and how to test.  You will get guidelines and tools for developing an operational definition and doing a criticality analysis.  ($74*;$69; $64)
  3. How to Develop Performance Tests: learn about the different types of performance tests, what differentiates them in terms of fidelity (how life-like they are), and what is required of each.  You will receive a set of guidelines for developing performance tests, and how to accelerate the process by using generative AI.   You will see examples. ($84*; $79; $74)
  4. How to Develop Checklists and Rubrics:  learn how to more quickly design and develop checklists and rubrics to score performance tests using generative AI .  Learn to train and qualify judges in how to score performance tests and control inter-rater reliability.  You will receive templates and guidelines. ($84*; $79; $74)
  5. How to Develop Multiple-Choice Questions that Test Higher Level Skills:  find out how to use the work of David Merrill and Robert Bloom to create forced-choice questions (multiple-choice) that measure memory and reasoning.  Learn how generative AI can significantly accelerate the process allowing you to make smart use of your subject matter experts. You will receive a toolkit with guidelines for developing effective multiple-choice tests ($94*; $89; $84)
  6. How to Analyze Test Results:  learn how to do an item analysis to identify which questions and answer choices are effective and ineffective.  You will also learn how to compare tests to confirm they are equivalent, that is they measure the same knowledge and are equivalent in difficulty. ($74*; $69; $64)

  * Cost per session for the general public.  Discounts are available to ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, CTMR, and Hale Center Professional Members.  If you want to register for specific topics only, please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org and she will complete your registration.  Please note, one paid $444 registration allows up to six people in your organization to attend at no additional charge.   Just send Judy the names. 

  Materials:  Each topic comes with a workbook containing the slides, guidelines, and other supporting materials. 
  

  Cost:  For the series is $444, a $30 series savings (a total of six in your organization may attend at no additional cost); the cost for the series for ISPI, LDA, IFTDO, and CTMR individual members is $424, a $60 series savings; the cost for series for Hale Center Professional Members is $384, a $90 series savings.   Please contact Judy@HaleCenter.org if you want to find out how to arrange for an in-house program.

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• Wednesday with Judy - Ethics of AI

  • When
    19 Mar 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    virtual

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  Wednesday with judy

  The Ethics of technology 

  3^rd in the Technology Series

  Mar 19^th, Noon Central, 60 minutes 

  This year's Wednesday with Judy series is about the power of technology, specifically when you combine Generative AI with Systematic Processes.  Generative AI is only a tool, but when asked to augment the disciplines of discovery, analytics, influence, learning, and evaluation, it opens us to a whole new world.  It can accelerate our output, improve our efficiency, and offer new possibilities.  Andrew Clark is joining me for the March session that focuses on ethics.  Specifically we will explain the implications of limiting access and controlling content.  The series will explore the power of technology in whole new ways.  So, please join Judy and Andrew; help us create a common or universal model for performance excellence.  You will receive a zoom link upon registration.  

  
  

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• CPT Prep Workshop

  • When
    13 Apr 2025
  •  
    7:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    On-site and Virtual

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  CPT - Certified Performance Technologist Preparation Workshop

  April 13, 8:30am to 2:30pm Eastern; In-person and virtual

  Get recognized for your accomplishments.   ISPI's Certified Performance Technologist is the only performance-based credential for professionals in the field.  Join the other 1200 professional who have earned this designation.   The workshop walks you through the process of documenting your work.  You will see good and bad examples and be better assess your readiness.  The workshop fee includes the application fee and workshop materials.  You have 18 months after the workshop to submit your application.   

  The workshop will be offered virtually and live at 303 N Laura St, Jacksonville, FL.  To learn more about the CPT visit: https://www.ispi.international/get-started-with-cpt 

  The fee for the workshop for ISPI members is $1220.  Non-members is $1430.   

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• ISPI CPT & Award Reviewer Training

  • Start
    03 May 2025
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  • End
    21 Jun 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Virtual

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  Reviewer Refresher Training

  ISPI Outstanding Award Applications

  CPT Certification Applications 

  May 3rd, 12:00 to 4:00pm Eastern; Virtual

  OR

  June 21st, 12:00 to 4:00pm Eastern; Virtual 

  ISPI is inviting you to participate in this important event.  The training is for Award Reviewers and CPTs wanting to be reviewers.   Please email Judy@HaleCenter.org to let us know which day you can attend.

  
  

  Requirements

  1. You must be a ISPI member in good standing.
  2. You must read, sign, and submit a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
  3. If you want to be a CPT reviewer, you must also be a CPT in good standing.
  4. There is no cost to participate in this workshop.   

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