[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Inc. Announces Psychometrician

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BSD Certification Group Inc. Announces Psychometrician

June 28, 2006 -- BSD Certification Group Inc. Names Sandra Dolan as
Psychometrician

The BSD Certification Group Inc. is pleased to announce that Sandra Dolan, 
PH.D., Psychometrician, will be providing the psychometric assessment for 
the upcoming BSDA exam as well as subsequent psychometric services.

Sandra had this to say about her appointment as BSDCG psychometrician: "I 
am excited to be working with the BSD Certification Group to further 
develop their first exam offering, the BSD Associate (BSDA). By utilizing 
sound psychometric principles and applying testing industry standards 
defined in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing 
(APA/AERA/NCME) and by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, 
the BSDA exam will be especially relevant to the BSD community and will 
provide a fair and stable benchmark for assessing BSD knowledge and 
skills."

Dru Lavigne, Acting Chair of the BSD Certification Group, notes "that 
Sandra's professional experience is well matched to the BSD Certification 
Group's goal of providing valuable and well respected certification exams 
for administrators of BSD operating systems". Sandra has consulted with 
organizations in a variety of fields including IT, medicine, finance and 
the hospitality industry and worked with certification exams from Linux 
Professional Institute (LPI), American Osteopathic Association's physician 
certifying boards and the National Restaurant Association's ServSafe 
program. She earned her graduate degrees from the University of Chicago, 
with her Masters degree in Research Methodology and Quantitative 
Psychology and her PhD in Measurement, Evaluation and Statistical 
Analysis. She has been working in the measurement and evaluation field for 
over 15 years and has focused on working with certifying examinations in 
the last ten years, chiefly utilizing Rasch measurement techniques. 
Working with these certifying groups, Sandra applies current testing 
theory and develops program policies to improve examinations and gain 
approval through internal review mechanisms as well as to secure external 
accreditation through such organizations as NOCA/NCCA.

For more information regarding the BSD Certification Group Inc. and the 
upcoming BSDA exam, visit the Group's website.

A press release is available at:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb404256.htm

and

http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=News&Item=pr029