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Partnering with Dr. Mike Ponton to evaluate the validity + reliability of XCredit assessments
Partnering with Dr. Mike Ponton to evaluate the validity + reliability of XCredit assessments
Professor Ponton is currently appointed in the Department of Higher Education & Learning Technologies at Texas A&M University-Commerce and has published extensively in the field of self-directed learning where his interests include human agency, personal initiative, autonomous learning, and self-efficacy.
Analysis:
“I am going to conduct a principal component analysis on all items associated with a given instrument to determine support for construct validity. The best condensation of variables is the first principal component; thus, because an assessment focuses on one overall construct, the research hypothesis is that factor loadings for all items should be high for the first component thereby supporting construct validity. I will also analyze the internal consistency (i.e., internal reliability) for the entire instrument via Cronbach’s alpha coefficient.”
Partnering with the team at The Rutgers, Education and Employment Research Center, to collect outcomes data for XCredit.
Partnering with the team at The Rutgers, Education and Employment Research Center, to collect outcomes data for XCredit.
The outcomes evaluation will focus on providing data to answer and examine the following two questions, pertaining to the different use cases of XCredit:
Military Use Case: How does the award of the 21st- century skills digital micro-credentials through the XCredit "ecosystem" act as a signal to interview and hire?
Civilian Internal Mobility Use Case: In what ways does the validation + digital micro-credential award of the 21st-century skills for incumbent workers lead to hiring and/or internal mobility?
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