define

• Skill Standards Development (identifying, verifying, validating, and documenting what individuals need to know and be able to do to effectively perform functional roles associated with business processes)

• Skill Standards Contextualization (using validated skill standards to identify, verify, validate, and document functional role profiles associated with occupational and/or industry clusters)

• PODS Development (using legacy content, performance, and skill standards to build an integrated framework for curriculum content and assessment development)

measure

• Item Bank Development, Delivery, and Maintenance (developing, validating, delivering, and maintaining standards-based items and assessments for low and high-stakes purposes)

• Alignment Analysis (analyzing curriculum content and assessments to provide stakeholders information about the extent to which they are aligned with industry skill standards)

• Program Assessment (using "theory of change" approach to gauge efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of human capital practices and procedures and education, training, and professional development programs)

optimize

• Instructional Design (analyzing and building organizational capacity to design, develop, and implement standards-based curriculum framework, objectives, and goals)

• Program Design (analyzing and building organizational capacity to develop policies and procedures that govern the design, development, and implementation of assessment-based education, training, and/or professional development programs)

• Certification Development (create the architecture, including skills, performance criteria, and assessment protocol to certify workers to ensure their competence in a specific area)