Tuesday, March 03, 2015, 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM (PST)


IGNITE SESSIONS


Moderated By:
Ashok Sarathy, Innovations in Testing Program Chair
Rachel Schoenig, Innovations in Testing Program Vice Chair


IGNITE 2: Five Innovative Practices to Manage and Working with Big Data in the Testing Industry


Practice Area Division(s): Certification/Licensure, Workforce Skills Credentialing, Education, Clinical
Topic: Data Management

In the day to day operation of an assessment/testing program, we often encounter “Big Data”. Initially, the term “Big Data” was a term used to describe the necessity of solving more disk space among computer engineers. As time has progressed, Big Data has expanded to various situations since large, complex, and multiple datasets continue to grow. Consequently, managing and working with Big Data has been challenging and requires innovative practices of mining, managing, and analyzing the data to produce meaningful and effective ways to communicate it. In this Ignite Session, the presenter will present five innovative practices that can be helpful to the testing industry when managing and working with Big Data.

  1. Define and operationalize the question your organization seeks to answer.

  2. Involve multiple stakeholders when discussing Big Data (e.g., vendors, IT, decision makers, certification holders/SMEs).

  3. Identify your data sources and develop a data dictionary (e.g., registration/candidate data, exam score data, financial data, testing vendor data, survey data, public data sets (Department of Labor).

  4. Standardized multiple data sets among common fields (ID number, demographics).

  5. Produce simple reports designed to answer the question your organization sought to answer.

PRESENTER:
Manfred Straehle, International Credentialing Associates