Graduate Certificate in Assessment, Testing, and Measurement in Education
Measure Up To Your Career Goals
Whether you are looking to analyze student achievement in a school district, employees at a Fortune 500 company, or a sampling of patients in a counseling lab, expertise in data driven decision making is critical.
Develop your professional expertise or supplement your learning with a certificate in Assessment, Testing, and Measurement (ATM) in Education. Combine statistical analysis, testing theory, the study of human behavior, educational measurement, and evaluation into the science of measuring educational/behavioral factors such as learning, preference, aptitude, and personality.
Convert Certificate to Degree
Earn this graduate certificate now, and continue on or return later to fold it into a Master’s in Assessment, Testing, and Measurement (ATM) in Education.*
*All requirements must be met and student accepted to the master's program
Gain Real Life Experience
Become more competitive in the job market by advancing your skills in managing dynamic, data-based strategies that generate organizational success for corporate, educational, and non-profit operations though hands-on coursework.
Accommodating
Courses are scheduled once a week in late afternoons and evenings (Monday-Thursday) to accommodate the schedules of working professionals, and for internship experiences.
The GW Advantage
With close proximity to the White House, World Bank, Federal Agencies, and Professional Associations students are provided with rich environments to work, attend scholarly events and hone their analytical skills. The program offers some of the nation's premier graduate training in psychometric and statistical methods taught by faculty who are engaged in world-class research. Students are provided mentorship through all phases of the research process and become trained in modern analytical methods.
Degree:
Graduate Certificate in Assessment, Testing, and Measurement in Education
Department:
Educational Leadership
Course Delivery:
Foggy Bottom Campus
Program Entry:
Spring, Summer, Fall
- Curriculum
The following requirements must be fulfilled: 12 credits in required courses.
Course List Code Title Required EDUC 8120 Group Comparison Designs and Analyses >EDUC 8170 Educational Measurement >EDUC 8171 Predictive Designs and Analyses >EDUC 8175 Item Response Theory or >EDUC 8177 Assessment Engineering
Apply Now
The GC in ATM program is not currently accepting applications. For more information or to inquire about similar programs, contact the GSEHD Admissions Team at askdel@gwu.edu or 202-994-9283.
To be considered for admission, applicants must submit the online application form as well as the following required supporting documents. There is no application fee.
- Prerequisite: Bachelor's Degree
- Resume
- Transcripts from all previously attended colleges or universities
- Statement of Purpose
- Two Letters of Recommendation
*Additional application requirements may exist for international applicants.
Career Outlook
Specialists in this field (psychometricians) plan and design tests that collect empirical data and quantify the personal characteristics of individuals, comparing those results within or across populations. The field continues to grow due to more widespread use of statistical analysis to make informed business, healthcare, and policy decisions.
- Potential Career Opportunities & Employment Settings
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Specialists are working in:
- School or School Districts: Education ATM specialists work directly with teachers administering tests, assessing test results, and developing educational plans for improving test scores. Child development organizations and agencies: ATM specialists are relied on in the study of childhood development. Psychometric tests help teachers, parents, and psychologists identify learning deficiencies and giftedness in preschool and elementary school-aged children.
- Online Sector: Today, many ATM specialists develop online testing and analysis. Universities, government agencies, school districts, private testing companies, and direct-to-consumer testing businesses are all interested in the research and application of web- based testing and assessment.
- Private sector: Corporations commonly employ ATM specialists to assess potential employees to determine personality fit for the company, a factor that may be weighed just as heavily as skill set or experience.
- Psycho-social, behavioral and substance abuse: Counselors use psychometric evaluations to determine people’s motivations, personality traits, and levels of dependency.
- Monitoring & Evaluating Research: ATM specialists are needed in institutions of higher education, research-oriented organizations, federal research agencies, or non-profit organizations which are doing monitoring and/or evaluation research.
